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:
威
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (威)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1wēi
Tone 3wǎi
Family Characters (3)
Root: 威威
wēi
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
power