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:

委

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5

委 (wěi)

to entrust, committee, dejected, surname Wei

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Tone Fan-out (委)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1wō

Tone 3wěi

Tone 4wèi

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 委

委

wěi

HSK 5

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to entrust, committee, dejected, surname Wei

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矮

ǎi

HSK 4

矢(arrow)

short, low

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萎

wěi

HSK 7

艹(plants)

to wither; to drop

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倭

wō

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亻(person)

dwarf; Japanese (derog.) (old)

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痿

wěi

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疒(sickness)

atrophy

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諉

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言(speech)

—

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诿

wěi

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讠(speech)

to shirk; to give excuses

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逶

wēi

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辶(walking)

used in 逶迤[wei1 yi2]

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魏

wèi

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鬼(ghost)

surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States

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