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:
阿
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
阿 (ā)
prefix for names and nicknames / used in foreign transliterations / abbreviation for countries
7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (阿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1ā
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 阿阿
ā
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
prefix for names and nicknames / used in foreign transliterations / abbreviation for countries