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:
崔
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
崔 (cuī)
surname Cui; (literary) (of mountains) lofty
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (崔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1cuī
Tone 3cuǐ
Family Characters (5)
Root: 崔崔
cuī
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Cui; (literary) (of mountains) lofty