| 释义 |
pho·net·ic
I. \fōˈned.]ik, fəˈ-, -et], ]ēk\ adjective
Etymology: New Latin phoneticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnētos to be spoken (from phōnein to sound, speak, from phōnē sound, voice) + -ikos -ic — more at ban
1.
a. : of or relating to spoken language or speech sounds
< phonetic developments in English since Chaucer's time >
< phonetic differences between ancient and modern Greek >
b. : of or relating to the science of phonetics
< phonetic texts >
< phonetic laboratory apparatus >
2. : representing the sounds and other phenomena (as stress, pitch) of speech
< phonetic symbols >
a. : constituting an alteration of the ordinary orthographic spelling that better represents its value in the spoken language, that employs only characters of the regular alphabet, and that is used in a context of conventionally spelled orthographies
< thru and nite are fairly common phonetic spellings >
b. : constituting those characters in some ancient writings (as Egyptian) that represent speech sounds as distinguished from such as are ideographic or pictorial
c. : representing speech sounds by means of symbols that have one value only
< in this phonetic system g always has the value of g in go, never of g in gem >
d. : employing for speech sounds more than the minimum number of symbols necessary to represent the significant differences in a speaker's speech
< the minutely phonetic transcriptions of this linguistic atlas >
— contrasted with phonemic
II. noun
(-s)
: a Chinese character used with a radical to form a new character whose pronunciation it suggests |