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:
贵
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
贵 (guì)
expensive, precious, noble, your (honorific)
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (贵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4guì
Family Characters (8)
Root: 贵贵
guì
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
expensive, precious, noble, your (honorific)