谐声
phono-semantic character composition; homophonous
Frequency 1.5
Meanings
- combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2sheng1])
- (of words or characters) homophonous