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:
敏
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (敏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2fán
Tone 3mǐn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 敏敏
mǐn
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
quick, nimble, smart