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:
鼓
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
鼓 (gǔ)
old variant of 鼓[gu3]
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (鼓)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2pí
Tone 3gǔ
Family Characters (4)
Root: 鼓鼓
gǔ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 鼓[gu3]