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:
预
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
预 (yù)
to advance, in advance, beforehand, to prepare
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (预)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4yù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 预预
yù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to advance, in advance, beforehand, to prepare