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:
呆
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
呆 (dāi)
foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (呆)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1dāi
Tone 3bǎo
Family Characters (2)
Root: 呆呆
dāi
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank