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:

田

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

田 (tián)

field

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (田)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2tián

Tone 4xì

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 田

田

tián

HSK 6

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

field

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细

xì

HSK 4

纟(silk)

thin or fine

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甸

diàn

HSK 7

勹(wrap)

suburbs or outskirts

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細

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糹(silk)

—

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鈿

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釒(gold)

—

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钿

diàn

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钅(metal)

to inlay with gold, silver etc; ancient inlaid ornament shaped as a flower

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