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:
昔
8
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (昔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1xī
Tone 2jí
Tone 4jiè
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 昔昔
xī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Xi; former times