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:
匸
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
匸 (xì)
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2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (匸)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Tone 4xì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 匸匸
xì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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