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:
肰
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (肰)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2rán
Family Characters (2)
Root: 肰肰
rán
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dog meat; old variant of 然[ran2]