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:
矢
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
矢 (shǐ)
arrow; dart
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (矢)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1zhī
Tone 2jí
Tone 3shǐ
Tone 4zhì
Family Characters (6)
Root: 矢矢
shǐ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
arrow; dart