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:
缊
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
缊 (yūn)
orange color; used in 絪縕|𬘡缊[yin1 yun1]
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (缊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yūn
Tone 4yùn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 缊缊
yūn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
orange color; used in 絪縕|𬘡缊[yin1 yun1]