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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:
仑
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

仑 (lún)

to arrange

5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (仑)

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

2 Active Tones
Tone 1lūn
Tone 2lún

Family Characters (5)

Root: 仑
仑
lún
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to arrange

轮
lún
HSK 4

wheel, gear, to take turns

抡
lūn
HSK 7

to swing, wave, fling

囵
lún
Expansion

used in 囫圇|囫囵[hu2 lun2]

沦
lún
Expansion

to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to

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