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:
半
11
Family Characters
7
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (半)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2pán
Tone 4bàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 半半
bàn
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
half