phonosemantic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

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

phonosemantic phono-semantic

From phono- + semantic.

determinative-phonetic pictophonetic semasio-phonetic

ideogrammic

phonosemantically phono-semantic compound phonosemantic matching phono-semantic matching

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