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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:
册
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5

册 (cè)

book

4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (册)

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

2 Active Tones
Tone 1shān
Tone 4cè

Family Characters (4)

Root: 册
册
cè
HSK 5
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

book

姗
shān
Expansion

used in 姍姍|姗姗[shan1 shan1]

珊
shān
Expansion

coral

跚
shān
Expansion

used in 蹣跚|蹒跚[pan2 shan1]

册 (cè) Family — 姗, 珊, 跚… | HanziGuru