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:
风
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
风 (fēng)
wind
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (风)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1fēng
Tone 3fěng
Family Characters (5)
Root: 风风
fēng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
wind