phonophoric
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phonophoric (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Sound-bearing; said of certain characters in otherwise ideographic languages.
- 2016, Haeree Park, The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE):
- The graphic component in a character that plays a phonetic role is called phonophoric, and the one that plays a semantic role is called signific.