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:
乙
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
乙 (zhé)
turning stroke
7
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1wā
Tone 2zhé
Tone 3yǐ
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (7)
Root: 乙乙
zhé
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
turning stroke