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:
郭
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (郭)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1guō
Tone 4kuò
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 郭郭
guō
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Guo; outer city wall