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:
邑
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
邑 (yì)
city; village
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (邑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 邑邑
yì
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
city; village