Dictionary Entry: 不一致字
Word
Pinyin
不一致字
bù yī zhì zì
(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case) ꞏ 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)