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:
北
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (北)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1bēi
Tone 3běi
Tone 4bèi
Family Characters (3)
Root: 北北
běi
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
north