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:

韱

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

韱 (xiān)

wild onions or leeks

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (韱)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

3 Active Tones

Tone 1xiān

Tone 4chèn

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 韱

韱

xiān

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

wild onions or leeks

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懺

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忄(heart)

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殲

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歹(death)

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籤

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⺮(bamboo)

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纖

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糹(silk)

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讖

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言(speech)

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谶

chèn

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讠(speech)

(literary) prophecy; omen

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