phonophoric

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

phono- +‎ -phore +‎ -ic

Adjective[edit]

phonophoric (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Sound-bearing; said of certain characters in otherwise ideographic languages.
    • 2016, Haeree Park, The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE):
      The graphic component in a character that plays a phonetic role is called phonophoric, and the one that plays a semantic role is called signific.
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