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:
敝
10
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (敝)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1biē
Tone 4bì
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 敝敝
bì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
my (polite); poor