諧聲 [谐声]
Jyutping
haai4 seng1
Pinyin
xié shēng
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noun
pictophonetic characters, with one element indicating meaning and the other indicating sound
諧聲 [谐声]
Jyutping
Pinyin
xié shēng
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combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1])
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(of words or characters) homophonous