음가자

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 假 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈɯ(ː)mɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
Phonetic hangul: [음(ː)가자]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	eumgaja
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	eumgaja
McCune–Reischauer^?	ŭmgaja
Yale Romanization^?	ūmkaca

음가자 • (eumgaja) (hanja 音假字)

(linguistics) a phonetically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write non-Chinese morphemes in a non-Chinese language; it retains only the phonetic value of the original Chinese.
Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字) (eumdokja( 音讀字 )), 훈가자(訓假字) (hun'gaja( 訓假字 )), 훈독자(訓讀字) (hundokja( 訓讀字 ))