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:
柬
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
柬 (jiǎn)
abbr. for 柬埔寨[Jian3 pu3 zhai4], Cambodia; card
13
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (柬)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2lán
Tone 3jiǎn
Tone 4liàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 柬柬
jiǎn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
abbr. for 柬埔寨[Jian3 pu3 zhai4], Cambodia; card