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:
燕
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
燕 (yān)
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (燕)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yān
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 燕燕
yān
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei