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:
衍
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
衍 (yǎn)
to spread out, to develop, to overflow
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (衍)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1qiān
Tone 3yǎn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 衍衍
yǎn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to spread out, to develop, to overflow