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:
戠
6
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (戠)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2zhí
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 戠戠
zhí
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to gather; old variant of 埴[zhi2]