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:
里
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
里 (lǐ)
variant of 裡|里[li3]
16
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (里)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1kuī
Tone 2lí
Tone 3lǐ
Tone 4niè
Tone 5
Family Characters (16)
Root: 里里
lǐ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 裡|里[li3]