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:
敛
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (敛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3liǎn
Tone 4liàn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 敛敛
liàn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 殮|殓[lian4]