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:
亏
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
亏 (kuī)
to lose (money) / luckily / deficit
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (亏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1kuī
Tone 4wò
Family Characters (5)
Root: 亏亏
kuī
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to lose (money) / luckily / deficit