单词 | phonetic |
释义 | phonetic —phonetically, adv. /feuh net"ik, foh-/, adj. 1. Also, phonetical. of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. 2. corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription. 3. agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling. 4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic. n. 5. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character. [1820-30; < NL phoneticus < Gk phonetikós vocal, equiv. to phonet(ós) to be spoken (verbid of phoneîn to speak) + -ikos -IC] |
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