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:
畐
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (畐)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1bī
Tone 2fú
Tone 4fù
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 畐畐
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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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