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:
匽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
匽 (yǎn)
to hide, to secrete, to repress; to bend
6
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (匽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3yǎn
Tone 4yàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 匽匽
yǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to hide, to secrete, to repress; to bend