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:
壹
4
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (壹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 壹壹
yī
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)