hình thanh

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 形聲, composed of 形 (“image; shape”) and 聲 (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hïŋ˨˩ tʰajŋ̟˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɨn˦˩ tʰɛɲ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hɨn˨˩ tʰan˧˧]

Noun

hình thanh

1. a phono-semantic compound, one of the six types of Han characters, containing characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.

See also

• lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
  • tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
  • hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
  • hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
  • chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
  • giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)