声符

phonetic component of Chinese character

character serving as sound value of another character; phonetic

the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable; the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青 in 清)

semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component 刂 in 刻)

ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character

combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功, which has signific 力 and phonetic 工 (also referred to as 形声); (of words or characters) homophonous