Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

諧聲

xiéshēng

ㄒㄧㄝˊ ㄕㄥ

Simplified 谐声

  1. 1combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1])
  2. 2(of words or characters) homophonous

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