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:
靡
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (靡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2mí
Family Characters (2)
Root: 靡靡
mí
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to waste (money)