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:
炭
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (炭)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4tàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 炭炭
tàn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
charcoal / coal