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:
阝
6
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (阝)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1yē
Tone 2qí
Tone 4xì
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 阝阝
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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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