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:
前
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
前 (qián)
front / forward / ahead / before
6
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (前)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 2qián
Tone 3jiǎn
Tone 4jiàn
Family Characters (6)
Root: 前前
qián
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
front / forward / ahead / before