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:
卷
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
卷 (juǎn)
to roll up, roll, volume, book, or hypercompetitive (slang)
7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (卷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1juān
Tone 2quán
Tone 3juǎn
Tone 4juàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 卷卷
juǎn
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to roll up, roll, volume, book, or hypercompetitive (slang)