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:
曰
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
曰 (yuē)
to say
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (曰)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1yuē
Family Characters (2)
Root: 曰曰
yuē
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to say