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:

析

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5

析 (xī)

to analyze

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (析)

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

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Family Characters (6)

Root: 析

析

xī

HSK 5

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to analyze

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晰

xī

HSK 7

日(sun)

clear, distinct

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淅

xī

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氵(water)

(onom.) sound of rain, sleet etc

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皙

xī

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白(white)

(literary) fair-skinned; of light complexion

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菥

xī

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艹(plants)

used in 菥蓂[xi1 mi4]

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蜥

xī

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虫(insect)

(bound form) lizard

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