Dictionary Entry: 一致字

(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) ꞏ consistent characters (e.g. 搖|摇[yáo], 遙|遥[yáo] and 謠|谣[yáo], which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)