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:

敢

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

敢 (gǎn)

to dare

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Tone Fan-out (敢)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1hān

Tone 3gǎn

Tone 4hàn

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 敢

敢

gǎn

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to dare

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憨

hān

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心(heart)

silly; simple-minded

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撖

hàn

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扌(hand)

surname Han; Taiwan pr. [Gan3]

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橄

gǎn

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木(tree)

used in 橄欖|橄榄[gan3 lan3]

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澉

gǎn

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氵(water)

place name; wash

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瞰

kàn

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目(eye)

to look down from a height; to spy on sth

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阚

kàn

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门(door)

surname Kan; to glance

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闞

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門(door)

—

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