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:
业
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
业 (yè)
Industry, profession, business, karma
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (业)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3xiǎn
Tone 4yè
Family Characters (3)
Root: 业业
yè
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Industry, profession, business, karma