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:
喜
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (喜)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xī
Tone 3xǐ
Family Characters (4)
Root: 喜喜
xǐ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to like / to be happy