Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Chinese, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 反切 (fǎnqiè).
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
