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:
昝
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (昝)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1zān
Tone 3zǎn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 昝昝
zǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Zan