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:
纂
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
纂 (zuǎn)
(literary) to compile; to edit (variant of 纂[zuan3])
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (纂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zuǎn
Tone 4zuàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 纂纂
zuǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(literary) to compile; to edit (variant of 纂[zuan3])