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:
腊
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (腊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xī
Tone 4là
Family Characters (2)
Root: 腊腊
xī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dried meat
臈
là
HSK 7Sound series member
old variant of 臘|腊[la4]