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:

卑

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

卑 (bēi)

humble

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (卑)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

5 Active Tones

Tone 1bēi

Tone 2pí

Tone 3bǐ

Tone 4pì

Tone 5

Family Characters (17)

Root: 卑

卑

bēi

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

humble

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啤

pí

HSK 3

口(mouth)

beer

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牌

pái

HSK 3

片(slice)

signboard, brand, playing card

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脾

pí

HSK 5

⺼(meat)

spleen

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碑

bēi

HSK 7

石(stone)

stone tablet

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俾

bǐ

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+ 亻

to cause; to enable

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埤

pí

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土(earth)

low wall

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捭

bǎi

Expansion

扌(hand)

to spread out; to open

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痺

Expansion

疒(sickness)

—

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睥

pì

Expansion

目(eye)

used in 睥睨[pi4 ni4]; Taiwan pr. [bi4]

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稗

bài

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禾(grain)

barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli

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萆

bì

Expansion

艹(plants)

castor seed

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蜱

pí

Expansion

虫(insect)

tick (zoology)

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郫

pí

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阝(city)

place name

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陴

pí

Expansion

阝(city)

parapet

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鵯

Expansion

鳥(bird)

—

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鹎

bēi

Expansion

鸟(bird)

the Pycnonotidae or bulbul family of birds

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