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:
孛
11
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (孛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1bō
Tone 2bó
Tone 4bèi
Tone 5po
Family Characters (11)
Root: 孛孛
bèi
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
comet