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:

甚

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

甚 (shén)

variant of 什[shen2]

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (甚)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1zhēn

Tone 2shén

Tone 4shèn

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 甚

甚

shén

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 什[shen2]

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斟

zhēn

HSK 6

斗(dipper)

to pour

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勘

kān

HSK 7

力(power)

to investigate

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戡

kān

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戈(halberd)

kill; suppress

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椹

shèn

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木(tree)

variant of 葚[shen4]

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葚

shèn

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艹(plants)

fruit of mulberry; also pr. [ren4]

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諶

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言(speech)

—

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谌

chén

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讠(speech)

surname Chen; faithful

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