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:

千

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

千 (qiān)

thousand

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Tone Fan-out (千)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1qiān

Tone 4qiàn

Family Characters (7)

Root: 千

千

qiān

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

thousand

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迁

qiān

HSK 6

辶(walking)

to move

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纤

qiàn

HSK 7

纟(silk)

boatman's tow-rope

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仟

qiān

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亻(person)

thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

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忏

chàn

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忄(heart)

(bound form) to feel remorse; (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama")

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扦

qiān

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扌(hand)

short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc; skewer

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阡

qiān

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阝(city)

road leading north and south

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