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:
斩
7
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (斩)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 2cán
Tone 3zhǎn
Tone 4zàn
Family Characters (7)
Root: 斩斩
zhǎn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to behead, to chop