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:
巽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
巽 (xùn)
to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4xùn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 巽巽
xùn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind