phonosemantic
Meanings
Adj
- 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)
- Of or pertaining to phonosemantics
Origin / Etymology
From phono- + semantic.
Synonyms
determinative-phonetic, pictophonetic, semasio-phonetic
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