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:
聿
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
聿 (yù)
(arch. introductory particle); then
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (聿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jīn
Tone 4yù
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 聿聿
yù
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(arch. introductory particle); then