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:
反
13
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (反)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1bān
Tone 3fǎn
Tone 4fàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 反反
fǎn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
against, reverse, contrary