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:
契
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (契)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xiē
Tone 4qì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 契契
qì
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to carve, contract, agreement