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:
脊
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
脊 (jǐ)
(bound form) spine; backbone; (bound form) ridge
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (脊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2jí
Tone 3jǐ
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 脊脊
jǐ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(bound form) spine; backbone; (bound form) ridge