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:
也
10
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (也)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1tā
Tone 2chí
Tone 3yě
Tone 5de
Family Characters (10)
Root: 也也
yě
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
also; too; as well