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:
尿
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1suī
Tone 4niào
Family Characters (2)
Root: 尿尿
suī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
urine