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:
殸
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (殸)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1xīn
Tone 4qìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 殸殸
qìng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 磬[qing4]