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:
因
9
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (因)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yīn
Tone 4yàn
Family Characters (9)
Root: 因因
yīn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 因[yin1]