形声

形声

See also: 形聲

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 形声 – see 形聲 (“phonosemantic compounding”). (This term, 形声, is the simplified form of 形聲.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
形	声
けい Grade: 2	せい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 形聲 (heng syeng, literally “form, shape + sound”).

The kan'on, so likely a borrowing from later in the history of Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) けーせー [kèéséé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞ːse̞ː]

Noun

形声 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 形聲, hiragana けいせい, rōmaji keisei)

1. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

• 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN