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:
彡
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
彡 (shān)
bristle radical
9
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (彡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1shān
Tone 2tóng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 彡彡
shān
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bristle radical