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:
兹
9
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (兹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zī
Tone 2cí
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 兹兹
cí
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
this / present / year