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:
翟
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (翟)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1chuō
Tone 2zhái
Tone 4tì
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 翟翟
zhái
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Zhai