훈가자

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Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from (gloss) + (borrow) + (character)

Examples

The Chinese character (huǒ) means "fire", and the Old Korean word for "fire" was *pul. In one Old Korean text, the second syllable of the word *kapul meaning "stingray", which is etymologically unconnected to "fire", was written with .

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɸʷu(ː)nɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?hun'gaja
Revised Romanization (translit.)?hungaja
McCune–Reischauer?hun'gaja
Yale Romanization?hwūnkaca

Noun

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훈가자 (hun'gaja) (hanja 訓假字)

  1. (linguistics) a semantically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write a non-Chinese language, and whose phonetic value derives from the native semantic equivalent of the Chinese character
    Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字), 음가자(音假字), 훈독자(訓讀字)