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:
戒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
戒 (jiè)
to warn, guard against, or give up
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (戒)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4jiè
Family Characters (2)
Root: 戒戒
jiè
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to warn, guard against, or give up