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:

耶

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

耶 (yē)

(phonetic ye)

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (耶)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

3 Active Tones

Tone 1yē

Tone 2yé

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 耶

耶

yē

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

(phonetic ye)

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爷

yé

HSK 1

父(father)

grandpa

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椰

yē

HSK 7

木(tree)

(bound form) coconut palm; Taiwan pr. [ye2]

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倻

yē

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亻(person)

used to represent phonetic "ya" in Korean names

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揶

yé

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扌(hand)

to gesticulate; to play antics

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爺

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父(father)

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