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:
魁
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
魁 (kuí)
chief, head, outstanding, exceptional, stalwart
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (魁)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2kuí
Family Characters (2)
Root: 魁魁
kuí
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
chief, head, outstanding, exceptional, stalwart