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:
申
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
申 (shēn)
to extend, to state, 9th earthly branch
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (申)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1shēn
Tone 2shén
Tone 3shěn
Tone 4shèn
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 申申
shēn
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to extend, to state, 9th earthly branch