An educational tool that examines how Chinese characters are constructed and how meaning and pronunciation are altered by radicals and characters combinations.
Try Chinese Character Explorer here
Click “Help” in the top right to take a tour.
Dynamic animations and a sense of discovery through play makes learning Chinese etymology engaging and memorable! You can either search a character to see its breakdown, or build a character up from a base radical by selecting other characters to combine into the radical character.
- Red connections (between 國 and 囗) indicates a radical/meaning relation
- Green connections (between guó and huò) indicates a phonetic relation
- Purple bubbles contain radicals and blue bubbles contain compounds
- White bubbles surrounding a character show possible combinations with other characters to form a new character
Data compiled from: Unihan, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, EON Media
