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:
失
11
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (失)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1shī
Tone 2dié
Tone 3tiě
Tone 4zhì
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 失失
shī
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to lose