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:
婪
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (婪)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2lán
Tone 3lǎn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 婪婪
lán
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 婪[lan2]
漤
lǎn
Expansionto soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste; to marinate in salt etc