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:
非
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
非 (fēi)
not; wrong; non-; Africa
26
Family Characters
9
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (非)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1fēi
Tone 2pái
Tone 3fěi
Tone 4bèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (26)
Root: 非非
fēi
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
not; wrong; non-; Africa