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:
爰
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (爰)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1xuān
Tone 2yuán
Tone 3nuǎn
Tone 4yuàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 爰爰
yuán
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Yuan; therefore