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:
市
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (市)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 市市
shì
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
market, city