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:
奔
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
奔 (bēn)
to rush, to run quickly, to hurry
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (奔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1bēn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 奔奔
bēn
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to rush, to run quickly, to hurry