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:

益

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

益 (yì)

benefit

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Tone Fan-out (益)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 4yì

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 益

益

yì

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

benefit

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溢

yì

HSK 7

氵(water)

to overflow; (literary) excessive

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隘

ài

HSK 7

阝(city)

(bound form) narrow; (bound form) a defile; a narrow pass

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嗌

ài

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口(mouth)

(literary) to choke; to have a blockage in the throat; Taiwan pr. [yi4]

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縊

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糹(thread)

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缢

yì

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纟(silk)

(literary) to die by hanging or strangulation

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謚

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言(speech)

—

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谥

shì

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讠(speech)

(bound form) posthumous name or title; (literary) to confer a posthumous name or title

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镒

yì

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钅(metal)

ancient unit of weight equal to 20 or 24 liang 兩|两[liang3]

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