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:
衰
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (衰)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1cuī
Family Characters (3)
Root: 衰衰
cuī
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 縗|缞[cui1]