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:
串
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
串 (chuàn)
to string together, skewer, bunch
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (串)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4chuàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 串串
chuàn
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to string together, skewer, bunch