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:
岂
9
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (岂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1qī
Tone 2ái
Tone 3qǐ
Tone 4jì
Family Characters (9)
Root: 岂岂
qǐ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
how? (emphatic question)