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:
禽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
禽 (qín)
(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (禽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2qín
Family Characters (3)
Root: 禽禽
qín
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals