phonosemantic
adjEtymology
From phono- + semantic.
- borrowed from σημαντικός
Definitions
Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese…
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
The neighborhood
- synonymdeterminative-phonetic
- synonympictophonetic
- synonymsemasio-phonetic
- neighborideogrammic
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for phonosemantic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA