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:
骨
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
骨 (gū)
bone
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (骨)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1gū
Tone 2huá
Tone 3gǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 骨骨
gū
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bone