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:
黑
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
黑 (hēi)
black
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (黑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1hēi
Tone 2dú
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 黑黑
hēi
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
black