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:
段
7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (段)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4duàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 段段
duàn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
paragraph, section, stage