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:
隽
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (隽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1juān
Tone 2xié
Tone 4juàn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 隽隽
juàn
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Juan; meaningful