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:
重
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (重)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1zhōng
Tone 2chóng
Tone 3dǒng
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 重重
chóng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
heavy, repeat, layer