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:
㬎
4
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (㬎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2xí
Tone 3xiǎn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 㬎㬎
xiǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 顯|显[xian3]