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:

亶

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

亶 (dǎn)

surname Dan; sincere

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Tone Fan-out (亶)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

5 Active Tones

Tone 1shān

Tone 2tán

Tone 3dǎn

Tone 4shàn

Tone 5

Family Characters (12)

Root: 亶

亶

dǎn

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Dan; sincere

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擅

shàn

HSK 7

扌(hand)

expert in, without authority

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颤

chàn

HSK 7

页(head)

to tremble

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壇

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土(earth)

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嬗

shàn

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女(woman)

(literary) to go through successive changes; to evolve

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檀

tán

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木(tree)

surname Tan; sandalwood

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氈

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毛(hair)

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澶

chán

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氵(water)

still (as of water); still water

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膻

shān

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⺼(meat)

(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻[shan1]

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顫

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頁(head)

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鱣

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魚(fish)

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鳣

shàn

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鱼(fish)

variant of 鱔|鳝[shan4]

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