음가자
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Korean
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 假 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɯ(ː)mɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
- Phonetic hangul: [음(ː)가자]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | eumgaja |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | eumgaja |
| McCune–Reischauer? | ŭmgaja |
| Yale Romanization? | ūmkaca |
Noun
[edit]- (linguistics) a phonetically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write non-Chinese morphemes in a non-Chinese language; it retains only the phonetic value of the original Chinese.