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:
衤
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
衤 (yī)
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (衤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yī
Tone 3nǐ
Family Characters (2)
Root: 衤衤
yī
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]