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phonetic

Pronunciation: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/

The English word “phonetic” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
  2. Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
  3. Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.

noun

  1. 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).

Etymology

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

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