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:
丁
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
丁 (dīng)
fourth, male adult, cube, surname Ding
19
Family Characters
9
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丁)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1dīng
Tone 2dá
Tone 3dǐng
Tone 4dìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (19)
Root: 丁丁
dīng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fourth, male adult, cube, surname Ding