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:
即
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (即)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jī
Tone 2jí
Tone 4jì
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 即即
jí
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
namely, at once, promptly