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:
位
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
位 (wèi)
position, place, classifier for people
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (位)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4wèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 位位
wèi
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
position, place, classifier for people