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:
尹
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
尹 (yǐn)
surname Yin; (literary) to administer; to govern
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Tone 3yǐn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 尹尹
yǐn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Yin; (literary) to administer; to govern