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:
坚
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (坚)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Family Characters (3)
Root: 坚坚
jiān
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
strong, solid, firm