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:
昷
12
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (昷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1wēn
Tone 3ǎo
Tone 4yùn
Tone 5
Family Characters (12)
Root: 昷昷
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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