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:
㝵
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (㝵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2dé
Tone 4ài
Family Characters (3)
Root: 㝵㝵
ài
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 礙|碍[ai4]