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:
十
8
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (十)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1zhī
Tone 2shí
Tone 3sǔn
Tone 4jì
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 十十
shí
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
ten