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:
丿
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
丿 (piě)
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4), aka 撇
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1piē
Tone 3piě
Family Characters (2)
Root: 丿丿
piě
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4), aka 撇
氕
piē
Expansionprotium 1H; light hydrogen, the most common isotope of hydrogen, having no neutron, so atomic weight 1