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:
肙
10
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (肙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1yuān
Tone 4juàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 肙肙
yuān
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
a small worm; to twist