phono-semantic compound
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Phono-semantic compound characters, or the combination of elements that provide meaning and sound: the rebus 干 (gan) provides the phonetic basis for combinations with determinative characters such as 木 (mu, tree),日 (ri, sun), and 月 (rou, meat), to create the characters ..."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
determination-phonetic character
semaphore-phonetic character