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:

赖

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

赖 (lài)

variant of 賴|赖[lai4]

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Tone Fan-out (赖)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 3lǎn

Tone 4lài

Family Characters (6)

Root: 赖

赖

lài

HSK 6

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 賴|赖[lai4]

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懒

lǎn

HSK 6

忄(heart)

lazy

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濑

lài

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氵(water)

name of a river; rushing of water

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獭

tǎ

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犭(dog)

otter; Taiwan pr. [ta4]

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癞

lài

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疒(sickness)

scabies; skin disease

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籁

lài

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⺮(bamboo)

a sound; a noise

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