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:

衣

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

衣 (yī)

clothes

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (衣)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1yī

Tone 2xí

Tone 4yì

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 衣

衣

yī

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

clothes

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依

yī

HSK 4

亻(person)

to depend on, according to

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哀

āi

HSK 7

口(mouth)

sorrow, grief, to grieve, Ai (historical name)

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袭

xí

HSK 7

龙(dragon)

to raid, to attack, to inherit

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裔

yì

HSK 7

冏(bright)

descendants; ancestry; fringe

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襲

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龍(dragon)

—

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铱

yī

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钅(metal)

iridium (chemistry)

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