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:
颉
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
颉 (xié)
surname Xie; (of a bird) to fly upwards
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (颉)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2xié
Family Characters (3)
Root: 颉颉
xié
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Xie; (of a bird) to fly upwards