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:
言
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
言 (yán)
words, speech, to say, to talk
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (言)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yán
Tone 4yàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 言言
yán
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
words, speech, to say, to talk