phonosemantic
adjEtymology From phono- + semantic.
1
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)
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or pertaining to phonosemantics
- Synonyms
- determinative-phonetic, pictophonetic, semasio-phonetic
- Derived terms
- phonosemantically, phono-semantic compound, phonosemantic matching, phono-semantic matching
- Related terms
- ideogrammic