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:
哉
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
哉 (zāi)
(exclamatory or interrogative particle)
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (哉)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zāi
Tone 3zǎi
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 哉哉
zāi
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(exclamatory or interrogative particle)