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:
寺
10
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (寺)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1shī
Tone 2chí
Tone 4sì
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 寺寺
sì
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Buddhist temple