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:
宀
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
宀 (mián)
roof radical
6
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (宀)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2mián
Tone 3jiǎn
Tone 4sài
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 宀宀
mián
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
roof radical