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:
荐
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
荐 (jiàn)
to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (荐)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 4jiàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 荐荐
jiàn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.)