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:
医
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
医 (yī)
medical, medicine, doctor, to cure, to treat
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (医)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 医医
yī
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
medical, medicine, doctor, to cure, to treat