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:
系
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (系)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3gǔn
Tone 4xì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 系系
xì
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to connect, relation, system