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:
三
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (三)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1sān
Tone 2yán
Family Characters (3)
Root: 三三
sān
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
three