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:
栗
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
栗 (lì)
(literary) cold; chilly; (bound form) to tremble with fear
3
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (栗)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4lì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 栗栗
lì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(literary) cold; chilly; (bound form) to tremble with fear