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:
邦
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (邦)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1bāng
Tone 3bǎng
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 邦邦
bāng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
country, nation, state