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:
辟
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
辟 (bì)
(literary) king; monarch; (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service
22
Family Characters
7
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (辟)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1pī
Tone 3pǐ
Tone 4bì
Tone 5
Family Characters (22)
Root: 辟辟
bì
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(literary) king; monarch; (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service
擗
pǐ
Expansion(literary) to beat the breast; to break off; to snap off (a branch, an ear of corn etc)