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:
艾
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
艾 (yì)
variant of 刈[yi4]; variant of 乂[yi4]
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (艾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1āi
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 艾艾
yì
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 刈[yi4]; variant of 乂[yi4]