形聲

See also: 形声

Chinese

		to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape	sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds) sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise
trad. (形聲)		形	聲
simp. (形声)		形	声

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xíngshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴ sing¹
• Min Nan (POJ): hêng-siaⁿ / hêng-seng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xíngshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: síngsheng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing²-shêng¹
    • Yale: syíng-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyngsheng
    • Palladius: синшэн (sinšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing⁴ sing¹
    • Yale: yìhng sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴ sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴ xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹ sɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hêng-siaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hîng-siann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hengsviaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² ɕiã³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hêng-seng
    • Tâi-lô: hîng-sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hengsefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

形聲

1. phonosemantic compounding (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)

Hypernyms

• 六書／六书 (liùshū)

Derived terms

• 形聲偏旁／形声偏旁 (xíngshēng piānpáng)

• 形聲字／形声字 (xíngshēngzì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (形聲):

• → Japanese: 形声(けいせい) (keisei)
• → Korean: 형성(形聲) (hyeongseong)
• → Vietnamese: hình thanh (形聲)

See also

• 六書／六书 (liùshū, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • 指事 (zhǐshì): ideogram
  • 象形 (xiàngxíng): pictogram
  • 形聲／形声 (xíngshēng): phono-semantic compound
  • 會意／会意 (huìyì): compound ideograph
  • 轉注／转注 (zhuǎnzhù): derivative cognate
  • 假借 (jiǎjiè): phonetic loan

• Category:Han phono-semantic compounds

Japanese

Kanji in this term
形	聲
けい Grade: 2	せい Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 形聲 – see the following entry.

【形声けいせい】 [noun] One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.

(This term, 形聲, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
形	聲

Noun

形聲 • (hyeongseong) (hangeul 형성)

1. Hanja form^? of 형성 (“phonosemantic compounding (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
形	聲

Noun

形聲

1. chữ Hán form of hình thanh (“phonosemantic compounding (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)”).