不一致字

不一致字
zhì

(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)

2 meanings
MEANING2 meanings

MEANING

  1. noun

    (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)

    • Inconsistent words are very common in language learning.

  2. noun

    inconsistent characters (e.g. 流[liu2], 梳[shu1] and 毓[yu4], which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)

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CHARACTER ANALYSIS

A bird flying swiftly upward and never willing to return represents the meaning of swift and unyielding.

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