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:
历
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
历 (lì)
old variant of 曆|历[li4]; old variant of 歷|历[li4]
8
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (历)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4lì
Family Characters (8)
Root: 历历
lì
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 曆|历[li4]; old variant of 歷|历[li4]