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:
派
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
派 (pā)
faction, clique, school, or loanword prefix
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (派)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1pā
Tone 4pài
Family Characters (2)
Root: 派派
pā
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
faction, clique, school, or loanword prefix