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:
黄
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
黄 (huáng)
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8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (黄)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2huáng
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 黄黄
huáng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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