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:
倍
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (倍)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4bèi
Family Characters (2)
Root: 倍倍
bèi
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
times (multiplier) / double