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:
宽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
宽 (kuān)
wide, broad, loose, relaxed, lenient
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (宽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1kuān
Family Characters (2)
Root: 宽宽
kuān
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
wide, broad, loose, relaxed, lenient