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:

日

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

日 (rì)

sun, day, date

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (日)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1tā

Tone 2qí

Tone 4rì

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 日

日

rì

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

sun, day, date

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蹋

tà

HSK 6

足(foot)

to step on

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圼

Expansion

土(earth)

—

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曆

Expansion

厤(calendar)

—

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汨

mì

Expansion

氵(water)

name of a river, the southern tributary of Miluo river 汨羅江|汨罗江[Mi4 luo2 jiang1]

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耆

qí

Expansion

老(old)

man of sixty or seventy

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遢

tā

Expansion

辶(walking)

used in 邋遢[la1 ta5]; Taiwan pr. [ta4]

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