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:
为
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (为)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1guī
Tone 2wéi
Tone 3wěi
Family Characters (3)
Root: 为为
wéi
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 為|为[wei2]