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:
曼
16
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (曼)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1mān
Tone 2mán
Tone 4màn
Tone 5
Family Characters (16)
Root: 曼曼
màn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
handsome; large