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:
岑
3
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (岑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2cén
Family Characters (3)
Root: 岑岑
cén
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Cen; small hill