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:
蔡
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (蔡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3cǎ
Tone 4cài
Family Characters (2)
Root: 蔡蔡
cài
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Cai