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:
奭
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
奭 (shì)
surname Shi; (literary) majestic; magnificent
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (奭)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 奭奭
shì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Shi; (literary) majestic; magnificent