Borrowed fromLatinphōnēticus, fromAncient Greekφωνητῐκός(phōnētĭkós). Bysurface analysis,phone +-etic.
- (UK)IPA(key): /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
- (US)IPA(key): /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/,[fəˈnɛɾɪk]
- Hyphenation:pho‧net‧ic
phonetic (notcomparable)
- Relating to the sounds of spokenlanguage.
- (linguistics) Relating tophones (as opposed tophonemes).
- Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed toorthographic.
All unfamiliar names have been transcribed inphonetic spelling.
relating to sounds of spoken language
linguistics: relating to phones
Translations to be checked
phonetic (pluralphonetics)
- (linguistics) In such writing systems as theChinese writing system, the portion of aphono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation;contrasted withsemantic (which is usually theradical).
1887–88,J. Edkins, “The character 眞 true”, inThe China Review, volume16, page306:I suspect that 田dien is the original character and truephonetic of the whole group.
1984, John DeFrancis,The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy:In the first case the character is pronounced identically, even as to tone, as thephonetic.
2013, William S-Y. Wang,Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page25:Or, the semantic may wrap around thephonetic, or position within thephonetic.
component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation
