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:
奈
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (奈)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4nài
Family Characters (3)
Root: 奈奈
nài
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
helpless