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:
执
7
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (执)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2zhí
Tone 4rè
Family Characters (7)
Root: 执执
zhí
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to execute, to grasp