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.

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奂

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

奂 (huàn)

surname Huan; excellent

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (奂)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

1 Active Tones

Tone 4huàn

Family Characters (6)

Root: 奂

奂

huàn

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Huan; excellent

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换

huàn

HSK 2

扌(hand)

exchange

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唤

huàn

HSK 7

口(mouth)

to call

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焕

huàn

HSK 7

火(fire)

(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous

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痪

huàn

HSK 7

疒(sickness)

paralyzed

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涣

huàn

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氵(water)

to dissipate; to dissolve

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