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:
尔
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2mí
Tone 3ěr
Family Characters (5)
Root: 尔尔
ěr
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 爾|尔[er3]