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:
贱
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
贱 (jiàn)
inexpensive, lowly, despicable, (humble) my
2
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (贱)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4jiàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 贱贱
jiàn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
inexpensive, lowly, despicable, (humble) my