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:
殿
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (殿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2tún
Tone 4diàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 殿殿
diàn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
palace hall