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:
连
7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (连)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2lián
Tone 3liǎn
Family Characters (7)
Root: 连连
lián
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to link, connect, even