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:
贯
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (贯)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4guàn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 贯贯
guàn
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to pierce through