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:
至
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
至 (zhì)
to arrive
14
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (至)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2zhí
Tone 4zhì
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 至至
zhì
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to arrive