形聲字

Chinese

		phonosemantic compounding	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (形聲字)		形聲	字
simp. (形声字)		形声	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xíngshēngzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴ sing¹ zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xíngshēngzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄗˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyngshengtzyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing⁴ sing¹ zi⁶
    • Yale: yìhng sīng jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴ sing¹ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴ xing¹ ji⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹ sɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː²²/

Examples

張／张 (zhāng) (弓長, "to stretch") 弓 (“bow”): semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) 長／长 (cháng): phonetic component (聲旁／声旁 (shēngpáng)) 江 (OC *kroːŋ) (氵工, "river") 氵 (水, “water”): semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) 工 (OC *koːŋ): phonetic component (聲旁／声旁 (shēngpáng)) 媽／妈 (mā) (女馬, "mother") 女 (“woman”): semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) 馬／马 (mǎ): phonetic component (聲旁／声旁 (shēngpáng)) 脷 (lei6) (⺼利, "tongue") ⺼ (肉, “meat; flesh”): semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) 利 (lei6): phonetic component (聲旁／声旁 (shēngpáng))

Noun

形聲字

1. phono-semantic compound; pictophonetic character; phonetic compound

See also

• semantic component: 意符 (yìfú) and 形旁 (xíngpáng)
• phonetic component: 聲旁／声旁 (shēngpáng), 聲符／声符 (shēngfú), and 音符 (yīnfú)