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:
啻
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
啻 (chì)
only (classical, usually follows negative or question words); (not) just
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (啻)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4chì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 啻啻
chì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
only (classical, usually follows negative or question words); (not) just