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:
乂
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2yáo
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (5)
Root: 乂乂
yì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to regulate; to govern