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:
晋
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
晋 (jìn)
to advance, to promote, Jin Dynasty
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (晋)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3jiǎn
Tone 4jìn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 晋晋
jìn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to advance, to promote, Jin Dynasty