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:
闵
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (闵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3mǐn
Family Characters (2)
Root: 闵闵
mǐn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Min; old variant of 憫|悯[min3]
悯
mǐn
Expansionto sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved