phonosemantic

See also: phono-semantic

English

Alternative forms

phono-semantic

Etymology

phono- +‎ semantic

Adjective

phonosemantic (not comparable)

Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese characters. (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to phonosemantics

Synonyms

determinative-phonetic
pictophonetic
semasio-phonetic

Derived terms

Translations

CJKV characters with a semantic and a phonetic

Chinese:
Mandarin: 形聲／形声 (zh) (xíngshēng)
Finnish: fonosemanttinen
French: phono-sémantique (fr)
Japanese: 形声 (ja) (keisei)

See also

ideogrammic

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