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:
胃
7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (胃)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4wèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 胃胃
wèi
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
stomach
渭
wèi
Expansionthe Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2]