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:
得
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (得)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1dē
Tone 3děi
Family Characters (2)
Root: 得得
děi
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
must, to have to