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:
司
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
司 (sī)
to manage, to take charge of, department
9
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (司)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1sī
Tone 2cí
Tone 4cì
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 司司
sī
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to manage, to take charge of, department