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:
冫
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
冫 (bīng)
"ice" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 15), occurring in 冰[bing1], 次[ci4] etc, known as 兩點水|两点水[liang3 dian3 shui3]
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (冫)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1bīng
Tone 2féng
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 冫冫
bīng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
"ice" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 15), occurring in 冰[bing1], 次[ci4] etc, known as 兩點水|两点水[liang3 dian3 shui3]