HanziGuru.Radicals Explorer
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:
师
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

师 (shī)

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5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (师)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

1 Active Tones
Tone 1shī

Family Characters (5)

Root: 师
师
shī
HSK 1
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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狮
shī
HSK 7

lion

筛
shāi
HSK 7

a sieve; to sift; to pour wine

浉
shī
Expansion

Shi, name of river in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan

蛳
sī
Expansion

snail

师 (shī) Family — 狮, 筛, 浉, 蛳… | HanziGuru