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:
爿
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
爿 (pán)
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc; slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
5
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (爿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1qiāng
Tone 2pán
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 爿爿
pán
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc; slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)