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:
眉
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (眉)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2méi
Tone 4mèi
Family Characters (8)
Root: 眉眉
méi
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
eyebrow