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:
鬼
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
鬼 (guǐ)
disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc
8
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (鬼)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1guī
Tone 2huái
Tone 3guǐ
Tone 4kuì
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 鬼鬼
guǐ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc