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:
遣
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
遣 (qiǎn)
(bound form) to dispatch; to send; (bound form) to drive away; to dispel
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (遣)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3qiǎn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 遣遣
qiǎn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(bound form) to dispatch; to send; (bound form) to drive away; to dispel