훈가자

훈가자

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 訓 (“gloss”) + 假 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)

Examples
The Chinese character 火 means "fire", and the Old Korean word for "fire" was *pul. In one Old Korean text, the second syllable of the word *kapul meaning "stingray", which is etymologically unconnected to "fire", was written with 火.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈɸʷuːnɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
• Phonetic hangeul: [훈ː가자]

Revised Romanization? hun-gaja Revised Romanization (translit.)? hungaja McCune–Reischauer? hun'gaja Yale Romanization? hwūnkaca

Noun

훈가자 • (hun-gaja) (hanja 訓假字)

1. (linguistics) a semantically adopted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write a non-Chinese language, and whose phonetic value derives from the native semantic equivalent of the Chinese character

   Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字) (eumdokja), 음가자(音假字) (eumgaja), 훈독자(訓讀字) (hundokja)