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:
而
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
而 (ér)
and, yet, but
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (而)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2ér
Tone 4nǜ
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 而而
ér
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
and, yet, but