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:

见

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

见 (jiàn)

to see / to meet

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (见)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 3jiǎn

Tone 4jiàn

Family Characters (7)

Root: 见

见

jiàn

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to see / to meet

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舰

jiàn

HSK 6

舟(boat)

warship

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枧

jiǎn

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木(tree)

bamboo conduit; wooden peg

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砚

yàn

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石(stone)

ink-stone

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笕

jiǎn

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⺮(bamboo)

bamboo conduit; water pipe of bamboo

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苋

xiàn

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艹(plants)

amaranth (genus Amaranthus); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)

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蚬

xiǎn

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虫(insect)

basket clam (clam of family Corbiculidae); (esp.) Corbicula leana 真蜆|真蚬[zhen1 xian3]

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