phonosemantic
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See also: phono-semantic
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Adjective
phonosemantic (not comparable)
- 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)
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to phonosemantics
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CJKV characters with a semantic and a phonetic
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