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:
店
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (店)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1diān
Tone 3diǎn
Tone 4diàn
Family Characters (4)
Root: 店店
diàn
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
shop, store, inn