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:
徵
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
徵 (zhǐ)
4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], corresponding to sol
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (徵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zhǐ
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 徵徵
zhǐ
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], corresponding to sol