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:
豕
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (豕)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jiā
Tone 2zhú
Tone 3shǐ
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 豕豕
shǐ
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
hog