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:
背
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (背)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1bēi
Tone 4bèi
Family Characters (2)
Root: 背背
bēi
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 背[bei1]