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:
青
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
青 (qīng)
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24
Family Characters
8
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (青)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1qīng
Tone 2qíng
Tone 3qǐng
Tone 4qiàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (24)
Root: 青青
qīng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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