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phono-semantic compound

noun

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 形聲字／形声字 (xíngshēngzì).

  1. derived from 形聲字／形声字

Definitions

  1. A Chinese character (CJKV character) composed of a component which is related to the…

    A Chinese character (CJKV character) composed of a component which is related to the meaning the character and another component which is related to the sound of the character.

    • Only an opaque and weak orthography-to-phonology analogy rule can be found with the phono-semantic compound type of characters (i.e., the xingshēng zi), which covers 80% of modern daily-use characters.
    • 'Jeon' is a phono-semantic compound which is formed from two elements of different words in two parts.
    • The Chinese character 城 is a phono-semantic compound of the "place" or "earth" radical 土 and 成, whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *deŋ.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phono-semantic compound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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