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:
白
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
白 (bái)
white
13
Family Characters
10
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (白)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1pāi
Tone 2bái
Tone 3bǎi
Tone 4pà
Family Characters (13)
Root: 白白
bái
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
white