Calque fromChinese形聲字／形声字 (xíngshēngzì).
phono-semanticcompound (pluralphono-semantic compounds)
- A Chinese character (CJKV character) composed of a component which is related to the meaning the character and another component which is related to the sound of the character.
2006,Language and linguistics - Volume 7, Issue 3, page579:Only an opaque and weak orthography-to-phonology analogy rule can be found with thephono-semantic compound type of characters (i.e., thexingshēng zi), which covers 80% of modern daily-use characters.
2015, Denise Doyle,New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds,→ISBN, page57:'Jeon' is aphono-semantic compound which is formed from two elements of different words in two parts.
2016 July 31, Sigurdr Volsung, “US elections - I do remember such unpopular cadidates”, insoc.history.medieval[1] (Usenet):The Chinese character 城 is aphono-semantic compound of the "place" or "earth" radical 土 and 成, whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *deŋ.
2017, Thomas O. Höllmann,Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy,→ISBN:Phono-semantic compound characters, or the combination of elements that provide meaning and sound: the rebus 干 (gan) provides the phonetic basis for combinations with determinative characters such as 木 (mu, tree),日 (ri, sun), and 月 (rou, meat), to create the characters ...
a type of Chinese character
