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:
人
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
人 (rén)
person
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (人)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2rén
Tone 3tǔn
Tone 4rèn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 人人
rén
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
person