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:
旦
14
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (旦)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1dān
Tone 2liáng
Tone 3tǎn
Tone 4dàn
Tone 5da
Family Characters (14)
Root: 旦旦
dàn
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dawn; daybreak