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:
垔
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
垔 (yīn)
to restrain; to dam a stream and change its direction
6
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (垔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1yīn
Tone 4juàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 垔垔
yīn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to restrain; to dam a stream and change its direction