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:
本
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (本)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1bō
Tone 3běn
Tone 4bèn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 本本
běn
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
root; origin; book classifier