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:
妾
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
妾 (qiè)
concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (妾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jiē
Tone 3shǎ
Tone 4qiè
Family Characters (5)
Root: 妾妾
qiè
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)