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:
颠
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
颠 (diān)
top of the head, apex, to fall forwards, inverted, to jolt
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (颠)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1diān
Family Characters (2)
Root: 颠颠
diān
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
top of the head, apex, to fall forwards, inverted, to jolt