phonosemantic

phonosemantic

See also: phono-semantic

English

Alternative forms

• phono-semantic

Etymology

phono- +‎ semantic

Adjective

phonosemantic (not comparable)

1. 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)
2. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to phonosemantics

Synonyms

• determinative-phonetic
• pictophonetic
• semasio-phonetic

Derived terms

• phono-semantic compound
• phono-semantic matching (PSM)
• phonosemantic matching

Translations

CJKV characters with a semantic and a phonetic

Chinese: Mandarin: 形聲／形声 (zh) (xíngshēng) Finnish: fonosemanttinen French: phono-sémantique (fr) Japanese: 形声 (ja) (keisei)

See also

• ideogrammic