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:
甘
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
甘 (gān)
surname Gan; abbr. for Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]
10
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (甘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1gān
Tone 2qián
Tone 4gàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 甘甘
gān
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Gan; abbr. for Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]