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:
殹
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
殹 (yì)
(archaic) (meaning unclear); (final particle)
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (殹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4yì
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 殹殹
yì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(archaic) (meaning unclear); (final particle)