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:
易
10
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (易)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1tī
Tone 4yì
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 易易
yì
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
easy / change