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:
彖
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
彖 (tuàn)
to foretell the future using the trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
7
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (彖)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yuán
Tone 4tuàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 彖彖
tuàn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to foretell the future using the trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经