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:
麻
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
麻 (má)
hemp (variant of 麻[ma2])
10
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (麻)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1mā
Tone 2má
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 麻麻
má
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
hemp (variant of 麻[ma2])