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:
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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
片 (piān)
piece, sheet, slice, film
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (片)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1piān
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 片片
piān
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
piece, sheet, slice, film