谐声

谐声
xiéshēng

combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1])

2 meanings
MEANING2 meanings

MEANING

  1. noun

    combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1])

    • A phonetic compound is a type of Chinese character.

  2. adjective

    (of words or characters) homophonous

    • This character and that character are homophonous.

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