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:
矣
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
矣 (yǐ)
classical final particle, similar to modern 了
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (矣)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1āi
Tone 3yǐ
Family Characters (5)
Root: 矣矣
yǐ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
classical final particle, similar to modern 了