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:
天
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (天)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1tiān
Tone 2cán
Tone 3tiǎn
Family Characters (4)
Root: 天天
tiān
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sky / heaven / day