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不一致字
bù yī zhì zì
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Definitions
- 1. (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. \through\, \bough\ and \rough\, where \-ough\ is not pronounced the same in each case)
- 2. inconsistent characters (e.g. 流[liú], 梳[shū] and 毓[yù], which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)