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:
典
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
典 (diǎn)
canon, law, standard work, ceremony, to pawn
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (典)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3diǎn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 典典
diǎn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
canon, law, standard work, ceremony, to pawn