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:
革
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
革 (gé)
animal hide, leather, reform, remove
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (革)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jū
Tone 2gé
Tone 4lè
Family Characters (4)
Root: 革革
gé
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
animal hide, leather, reform, remove