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:
知
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (知)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1zhī
Tone 2chí
Family Characters (5)
Root: 知知
zhī
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to know