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:
义
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (义)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yí
Tone 3yǐ
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (5)
Root: 义义
yì
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
righteousness, justice, meaning