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:
转
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
转 (zhuǎi)
to turn (specifically used in the idiom zhuǎi wén to show off one's literary skills)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (转)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zhuǎi
Tone 4zhuàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 转转
zhuǎi
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to turn (specifically used in the idiom zhuǎi wén to show off one's literary skills)