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:
阑
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (阑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2lán
Family Characters (5)
Root: 阑阑
lán
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
railing; balustrade