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:
郎
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
郎 (láng)
young man, minister, suffix for status, surname Lang
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (郎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1lāng
Tone 2láng
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 郎郎
láng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
young man, minister, suffix for status, surname Lang
啷
lāng
Expansionused in 啷當|啷当[lang1 dang1]; used in onomatopoeic words such as 哐啷[kuang1 lang1]