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:
几
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
几 (jī)
small table
13
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (几)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jī
Tone 3chǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 几几
jī
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
small table