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:
拜
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
拜 (bài)
to bow, pay respects, or acknowledge as master
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (拜)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4bài
Family Characters (2)
Root: 拜拜
bài
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to bow, pay respects, or acknowledge as master