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:

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

赞 (zàn)

variant of 讚|赞[zan4]

View Root Character Page

Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (赞)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1zā

Tone 2cuán

Tone 3zuǎn

Tone 4zàn

Family Characters (7)

Root: 赞

zàn

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 讚|赞[zan4]

Open Deep Dive

攒

cuán

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to bring together

Open Deep Dive

瓒

zàn

Expansion

王(jade)

libation cup

Open Deep Dive

缵

zuǎn

Expansion

纟(silk)

(literary) to inherit

Open Deep Dive

臜

zā

Expansion

⺼(meat)

used in 腌臢|腌臜[a1 za1]; Taiwan pr. [zang1]

Open Deep Dive

趱

zǎn

Expansion

走(run)

to hasten; to urge

Open Deep Dive

躜

zuān

Expansion

足(foot)

to jump

Open Deep Dive