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:
之
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
之 (zhī)
possessive particle, him, her, it
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (之)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1zhī
Family Characters (2)
Root: 之之
zhī
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
possessive particle, him, her, it