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:

詹

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

詹 (zhān)

surname Zhan; (literary) verbose

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Tone Fan-out (詹)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1zhān

Tone 2yán

Tone 4shàn

Tone 5

Family Characters (11)

Root: 詹

詹

zhān

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Zhan; (literary) verbose

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瞻

zhān

HSK 7

目(eye)

to gaze

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赡

shàn

HSK 7

贝(shell)

to support; to provide for

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儋

dān

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亻(person)

carry

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擔

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扌(hand)

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檐

yán

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木(tree)

eaves; ledge or brim

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澹

tán

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氵(water)

surname Tan

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簷

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⺮(bamboo)

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膽

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⺼(meat)

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蟾

chán

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虫(insect)

toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking); (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon

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贍

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貝(shell)

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