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:
关
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
关 (guān)
to close, mountain pass, to concern
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (关)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1guān
Tone 2lián
Family Characters (2)
Root: 关关
guān
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to close, mountain pass, to concern