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:
断
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
断 (duàn)
to break, to cut off, to judge, absolutely
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (断)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4duàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 断断
duàn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to break, to cut off, to judge, absolutely