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:
阅
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (阅)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4yuè
Family Characters (2)
Root: 阅阅
yuè
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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