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谐声
xié shēng
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Definitions
- 1. combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gōng], which has signific 力[lì] and phonetic 工[gōng] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xíng shēng])
- 2. (of words or characters) homophonous