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:

丕

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

丕 (pī)

grand

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (丕)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 1pī

Tone 3piě

Family Characters (7)

Root: 丕

丕

pī

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

grand

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胚

pēi

HSK 7

⺼(meat)

variant of 胚[pei1]

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呸

pēi

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口(mouth)

pah!; bah!

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坯

pī

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土(earth)

blank (e.g. for a coin); unburnt earthenware

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狉

pī

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犭(dog)

puppy badger

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苤

piě

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艹(plants)

used in 苤藍|苤蓝[pie3 lan5]

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邳

pī

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阝(city)

surname Pi; Han dynasty county in present-day Jiangsu

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