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:
患
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (患)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4huàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 患患
huàn
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to suffer, misfortune, trouble
漶
huàn
Expansion(of writing, pictures etc) indistinct due to deterioration (water damage etc); blurry