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:
犬
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
犬 (quǎn)
dog
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (犬)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3quǎn
Tone 4yàn
Family Characters (4)
Root: 犬犬
quǎn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dog
厣
yǎn
Expansionoperculum (Latin: little lid); a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)