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:
厘
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
厘 (lí)
centi-, one hundredth, or Li (historical figure)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (厘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2lí
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 厘厘
lí
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
centi-, one hundredth, or Li (historical figure)