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:
廷
9
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (廷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2tíng
Tone 3tǐng
Tone 4dìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 廷廷
tíng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
palace courtyard