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:
原
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (原)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yuán
Tone 4yuàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 原原
yuán
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
original
塬
yuán
Expansionplateau, esp. Loess Plateau of northwest China 黃土高原|黄土高原[Huang2 tu3 Gao1 yuan2]