phonosemantic
Adjective
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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
- determinative-phonetic
- pictophonetic
- semasio-phonetic
- French: phono-sémantique
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