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:
伊
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
伊 (yī)
surname Yi; abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4], Iraq
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (伊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Family Characters (3)
Root: 伊伊
yī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Yi; abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4], Iraq