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:
闲
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
闲 (xián)
enclosure; (variant of 閒|闲[xian2]) idle
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (闲)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2xián
Family Characters (4)
Root: 闲闲
xián
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
enclosure; (variant of 閒|闲[xian2]) idle