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:
时
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (时)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2shí
Family Characters (4)
Root: 时时
shí
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 時|时[shi2]