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