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:
斤
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
斤 (jīn)
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15
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (斤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jīn
Tone 2qí
Tone 4jìn
Tone 5
Family Characters (15)
Root: 斤斤
jīn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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