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:
士
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
士 (shì)
scholar, soldier, bachelor
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (士)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 士士
shì
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
scholar, soldier, bachelor