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:
番
10
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (番)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1pān
Tone 2pó
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 番番
pān
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Pan