Phonetic Families & Components
Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer
Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.
Popular Roots:
造
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (造)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1cāo
Tone 4zào
Family Characters (3)
Root: 造造
zào
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to make, build, create, invent