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:
尼
10
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尼)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1nī
Tone 2ní
Tone 3nǐ
Tone 4nì
Tone 5ne
Family Characters (10)
Root: 尼尼
ní
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Buddhist nun