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:
岁
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
岁 (suì)
variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year; years old
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (岁)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4suì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 岁岁
suì
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year; years old