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:
夷
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
夷 (yí)
barbarian, non-Han people, to wipe out
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (夷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2yí
Family Characters (6)
Root: 夷夷
yí
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
barbarian, non-Han people, to wipe out