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:
介
8
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (介)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jiē
Tone 4jiè
Family Characters (8)
Root: 介介
jiè
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
between / to introduce