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:
孱
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (孱)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2chán
Tone 3chǎn
Tone 4càn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 孱孱
càn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
used in 孱頭|孱头[can4 tou5]