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:
干
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
干 (gān)
dry, clean, shield, concern
17
Family Characters
8
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (干)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1gān
Tone 2hán
Tone 3gǎn
Tone 4gàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (17)
Root: 干干
gān
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dry, clean, shield, concern