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:
氾
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (氾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2fán
Tone 4fàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 氾氾
fán
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
used in given names and as a surname