phonetic
adjective
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Pronunciation: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/ / [fəˈnɛɾ.ɪk] / [fəˈneɾ.ɪk]
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.
- Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
- Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
- Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
“All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.
- In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
“I suspect that 田 dien is the original character and true phonetic of the whole group.”
“In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as the phonetic.”