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:
间
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (间)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jiān
Tone 3jiǎn
Family Characters (4)
Root: 间间
jiān
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
between