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:
丹
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1dān
Family Characters (4)
Root: 丹丹
dān
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
red / cinnabar