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:
釆
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
釆 (biàn)
old variant of 辨
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (釆)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xī
Tone 4biàn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 釆釆
biàn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 辨