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:
己
12
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (己)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3jǐ
Tone 4pèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (12)
Root: 己己
jǐ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
self