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:
畏
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (畏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1wēi
Tone 3wěi
Tone 4wèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 畏畏
wèi
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to fear