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:
鱼
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
鱼 (yú)
fish
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (鱼)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1sū
Tone 2yú
Tone 4jì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 鱼鱼
yú
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fish