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:
完
11
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (完)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1guān
Tone 2wán
Tone 3wǎn
Tone 4yuàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 完完
wán
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to finish / complete