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:
金
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
金 (jīn)
gold, metal, money
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (金)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jīn
Tone 4jìn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 金金
jīn
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
gold, metal, money
淦
gàn
Expansion(archaic) water leaking into a boat; historically, the name of a river in Jiangxi