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:
困
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (困)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3kǔn
Tone 4kùn
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 困困
kùn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to trap, sleepy, stranded