Chinese–English

谐声

xié shēng · xie sheng

Traditional 諧聲

Meaning

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  1. combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功 (gōng), which has signific 力 (lì) and phonetic 工 (gōng) (also referred to as 形聲 / 形声 (xíng shēng))
  2. (of words or characters) homophonous
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