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:
般
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
般 (pán)
kind, sort, way (often used in the structure 'as... as')
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (般)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1bān
Tone 2pán
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 般般
pán
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
kind, sort, way (often used in the structure 'as... as')