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:
恩
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (恩)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1ēn
Tone 4èn
Family Characters (4)
Root: 恩恩
ēn
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
favor, grace, kindness