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:
脉
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (脉)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4mài
Family Characters (2)
Root: 脉脉
mài
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 脈|脉[mai4]