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:

对

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

对 (duì)

right, correct, towards, pair

Family Characters

HSK Words

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 3duǐ

Tone 4duì

Root: 对

对

duì

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

right, correct, towards, pair

树

shù

HSK 1

tree

怼

duǐ

Expansion

(Internet slang) to attack verbally; to publicly criticize; to call out