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:
那
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (那)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1nā
Tone 2nuó
Tone 3nǎ
Tone 4nà
Family Characters (4)
Root: 那那
nā
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Na
娜
nà
Expansion(phonetic na); used esp. in female names such as Anna 安娜[An1 na4] or Diana 黛安娜[Dai4 an1 na4]