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:
亘
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
亘 (gèn)
extending all the way across; running all the way through
5
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (亘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2yuán
Tone 4gèn
Family Characters (5)
Root: 亘亘
gèn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
extending all the way across; running all the way through