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:
厂
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
厂 (hǎn)
cliff radical
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (厂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zhān
Tone 3hǎn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 厂厂
hǎn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
cliff radical