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:
甹
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (甹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1pīng
Tone 3chěng
Tone 4pìn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 甹甹
pīng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
chivalrous knight