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:
巤
8
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1lā
Tone 4liè
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 巤巤
liè
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 鬣[lie4]