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:
贰
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
贰 (èr)
two (banker's anti-fraud numeral); to betray
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (贰)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4èr
Family Characters (2)
Root: 贰贰
èr
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
two (banker's anti-fraud numeral); to betray