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:
鹿
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
鹿 (lù)
deer
7
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (鹿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2áo
Tone 4lù
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 鹿鹿
lù
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
deer