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:
然
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
然 (rán)
correct, right, so, thus, like this, -ly
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (然)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2rán
Family Characters (2)
Root: 然然
rán
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
correct, right, so, thus, like this, -ly