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:
米
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
米 (mǐ)
uncooked rice
9
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (米)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1mī
Tone 2mí
Tone 3mǐ
Tone 4jì
Family Characters (9)
Root: 米米
mǐ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
uncooked rice