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:
示
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
示 (shì)
to show, to reveal
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (示)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2shé
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 示示
shì
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to show, to reveal