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:
舛
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
舛 (chuǎn)
mistaken; erroneous
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (舛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3chuǎn
Tone 4shùn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 舛舛
chuǎn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
mistaken; erroneous