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:
妻
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (妻)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1qī
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 妻妻
qī
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
wife