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:
迷
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (迷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2mí
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 迷迷
mí
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fan / confused / lost