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:
任
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (任)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2rén
Tone 3rěn
Tone 4nèn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 任任
rén
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Ren