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:
疑
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (疑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2yí
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 疑疑
yí
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to doubt, to suspect