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:
监
7
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (监)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 2lán
Tone 4jiàn
Family Characters (7)
Root: 监监
jiān
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to supervise