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:
隺
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
隺 (hè)
bird flying high (phonetic clue for 鹤 hè, 榷 què, 傕 jué)
6
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (隺)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2jué
Tone 4hè
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 隺隺
hè
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bird flying high (phonetic clue for 鹤 hè, 榷 què, 傕 jué)