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:
冉
5
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (冉)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1dān
Tone 2rán
Tone 3rǎn
Family Characters (5)
Root: 冉冉
rǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 冉[ran3]