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:
巾
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
巾 (jīn)
towel
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jīn
Tone 4zhì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 巾巾
jīn
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
towel