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:
感
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (感)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3gǎn
Tone 4hàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 感感
gǎn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to feel / emotion / sense