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:
宁
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (宁)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2níng
Tone 4nìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 宁宁
nìng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 寧|宁[ning4]