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:
潘
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
潘 (pān)
surname Pan; Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (潘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1pān
Family Characters (2)
Root: 潘潘
pān
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Pan; Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes