phonetic
- Adjective. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
- Adjective. (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
- Noun. (context, linguistics) In such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; ''contrasted with'' radical.
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