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:
厓
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (厓)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2yá
Family Characters (4)
Root: 厓厓
yá
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)