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:
黎
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
黎 (lí)
Li ethnic group of Hainan Province, surname Li, dark, multitude
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (黎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2lí
Family Characters (2)
Root: 黎黎
lí
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Li ethnic group of Hainan Province, surname Li, dark, multitude