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:
乞
12
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乞)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1chī
Tone 3qǐ
Tone 4yì
Tone 5
Family Characters (12)
Root: 乞乞
qǐ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to beg