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:
丙
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
丙 (bǐng)
third of the ten Heavenly Stems, third in order
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3bǐng
Tone 4bìng
Family Characters (5)
Root: 丙丙
bǐng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
third of the ten Heavenly Stems, third in order