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:

鲜

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

鲜 (xiǎn)

variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]

Family Characters

HSK Words

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

1 Active Tones

Tone 3xiǎn

Root: 鲜

鲜

xiǎn

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]

癣

xuǎn

Expansion

ringworm; Taiwan pr. [xian3]

藓

xiǎn

Expansion

moss; lichen