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:
爻
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
爻 (yáo)
the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (爻)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2yáo
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 爻爻
yáo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶