phonetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds

   Phonetic analysis.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to speech sounds

   Phonetic transcription.

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.

   All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.

4. 4
   noun

   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).

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

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Simplified etymology

Phonetic entered English in the early 19th century from modern Latin phoneticus, derived from Greek phōnētikos and ultimately from phōnein, “to speak.”

Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.

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