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:
含
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (含)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2hán
Tone 4hàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 含含
hán
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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