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:
翕
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
翕 (xī)
to open and close (the mouth etc); friendly
2
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (翕)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xī
Tone 4shè
Family Characters (2)
Root: 翕翕
xī
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to open and close (the mouth etc); friendly