phonetic

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈnɛtɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fəˈnɛtɪk/, [fəˈnɛɾɪk]

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pho‧net‧ic

Adjective

phonetic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
2. (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)

Derived terms

• phonetical
• phonetically

 

Related terms

• fauxnetic
• phone
• phoneme
• phonemic
• phonetics
• semiphonetic

 

Translations

relating to sounds of spoken language

• Afrikaans: foneties
• Armenian: հնչյունային (hy) (hnčʻyunayin)
• Asturian: fonéticu
• Catalan: fonètic
• Czech: fonetický (cs)
• Dutch: fonetisch (nl)
• Finnish: äänteellinen, foneettinen (fi)
• French: phonétique (fr)
• Galician: fonético
• German: phonetisch (de)
• Greek: φωνητικός (el) (fonitikós)
• Italian: fonetico (it)
• Latvian: fonētisks
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fonetisk (no)

  Nynorsk: fonetisk

• Occitan: fonetic
• Polish: fonetyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: fonético (pt)
• Romanian: fonetic (ro)
• Russian: фонети́ческий (ru) (fonetíčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: fogharach
• Spanish: fonético (es)
• Swedish: fonetisk (sv)
• Tagalog: palatinigin
• Yiddish: פֿאָנעטיש (fonetish)

linguistics: relating to phones

• Armenian: հնչյունաբանական (hy) (hnčʻyunabanakan)
• Asturian: fonéticu
• Dutch: fonetisch (nl)
• Finnish: foneettinen (fi)
• French: phonétique (fr)
• German: phonetisch (de)
• Latvian: fonētisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fonetisk (no)

  Nynorsk: fonetisk

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: fonetyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: fonético (pt)
• Romanian: fonetic (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: fogharach
• Spanish: fonético (es)
• Tagalog: palatinigin
• Yiddish: פֿאָנעטיש (fonetish)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} ধ্বনিমূলক (dhwônmūlok)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} ध्वन्यात्मक (hi) (dhvanyātmak)

Noun

phonetic (plural phonetics)

1. (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
   • 1887–88, J. Edkins, “The character 眞 true”, in The China Review, volume 16, page 306:

     I suspect that 田 dien is the original character and true phonetic of the whole group.

   • 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy:

     In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as the phonetic.

   • 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:

     Or, the semantic may wrap around the phonetic, or position within the phonetic.

Translations

component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲旁／声旁 (zh) (shēngpáng), 声旁 (zh) (shēngpáng), 聲符／声符 (zh) (shēngfú), 声符 (zh) (shēngfú), 形聲偏旁／形声偏旁 (xíngshēng piānpáng), 形声偏旁 (xíngshēng piānpáng)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: foneettinen osa
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can