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:
咸
11
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (咸)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1zhēn
Tone 2xián
Tone 3hǎn
Tone 4bì
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 咸咸
xián
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
salted