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:
釜
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (釜)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3fǔ
Family Characters (2)
Root: 釜釜
fǔ
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
kettle; cauldron