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:

官

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

官 (guān)

government official

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Tone Fan-out (官)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

3 Active Tones

Tone 1guān

Tone 3guǎn

Tone 4guàn

Family Characters (8)

Root: 官

官

guān

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

government official

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管

guǎn

HSK 3

⺮(bamboo)

variant of 管[guan3]

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棺

guān

HSK 7

木(tree)

coffin

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倌

guān

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亻(person)

keeper of domestic animals; herdsman

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涫

guàn

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氵(water)

(classical) to boil

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绾

wǎn

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纟(silk)

bind up; string together

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菅

jiān

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艹(plants)

(grass); Themeda forsbali

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逭

huàn

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辶(walking)

to escape from

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