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:
哀
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
哀 (āi)
sorrow, grief, to grieve, Ai (historical name)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (哀)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1āi
Family Characters (2)
Root: 哀哀
āi
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sorrow, grief, to grieve, Ai (historical name)