形声

xíng shēng · xing sheng

Traditional 形聲

Meaning

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