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:
展
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (展)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zhǎn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 展展
zhǎn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to spread out, to exhibit