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:
艮
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
艮 (gěn)
blunt; tough
20
Family Characters
12
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (艮)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1gēn
Tone 2yín
Tone 3gěn
Tone 4tuì
Tone 5
Family Characters (20)
Root: 艮艮
gěn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
blunt; tough