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:
散
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (散)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3sǎn
Tone 4sàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 散散
sàn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 散[san4]