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:
耆
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (耆)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1shī
Tone 2qí
Tone 4shì
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 耆耆
qí
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
man of sixty or seventy