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:
尽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
尽 (jǐn)
to the greatest extent, furthest, to use up, to exhaust
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3jǐn
Tone 4jìn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 尽尽
jǐn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to the greatest extent, furthest, to use up, to exhaust