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:

算

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

算 (suàn)

to calculate

Family Characters

HSK Words

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 3suǎn

Tone 4suàn

Root: 算

算

suàn

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to calculate

篡

cuàn

Expansion

to seize; to usurp

篹

suǎn

Expansion

ancient bamboo basket for food; variant of 匴[suan3]

籑

zhuàn

Expansion

old variant of 撰[zhuan4]

纂

zuǎn

Expansion

(literary) to compile; to edit (variant of 纂[zuan3])