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:
堇
17
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (堇)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 2qín
Tone 3jǐn
Tone 4jìn
Tone 5
Family Characters (17)
Root: 堇堇
jǐn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
clay; old variant of 僅|仅[jin3]