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:
忒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

忒 (tè)

to err; to change

2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (忒)

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

1 Active Tones
Tone 4tè

Family Characters (2)

Root: 忒
忒
tè
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to err; to change

铽
tè
Expansion

terbium (chemistry)

忒 (tè) Family — 铽… | HanziGuru