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:
以
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (以)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3yǐ
Tone 4sì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 以以
yǐ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 以[yi3]