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:

凡

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

凡 (fán)

ordinary

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (凡)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1fān

Tone 2fán

Tone 4fèng

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 凡

凡

fán

HSK 6

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

ordinary

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凤

fèng

HSK 7

又(right hand)

phoenix

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帆

fān

HSK 7

巾(cloth)

variant of 帆[fan1]

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凫

fú

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鸟(bird)

mallard; Anas platyrhyncha

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梵

fàn

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林(forest)

abbr. for 梵教[Fan4 jiao4] Brahmanism; abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语[Fan4 yu3] or 梵文[Fan4 wen2]

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矾

fán

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石(stone)

alum

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釩

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釒(metal)

—

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钒

fán

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钅(metal)

vanadium (chemistry)

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鳧

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鳥(bird)

—

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鳳

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鳥(bird)

—

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