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:

祭

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

祭 (zhài)

surname Zhai

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (祭)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

3 Active Tones

Tone 2chá

Tone 4zhài

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 祭

祭

zhài

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Zhai

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察

chá

HSK 3

宀(roof)

variant of 察[cha2]

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傺

chì

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亻(person)

to detain; to hinder

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瘵

zhài

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疒(sickness)

(literary) disease (esp. tuberculosis)

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縩

cài

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糹(silk)

see 綷縩[cui4 cai4]

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際

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阝(city)

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