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:
尸
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
尸 (shī)
(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尸)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1shī
Family Characters (2)
Root: 尸尸
shī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)