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:
饣
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
饣 (shí)
"to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (饣)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2shí
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 饣饣
shí
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
"to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)