Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

形聲

xíngshēng

ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ

Simplified 形声

  1. 1ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
  2. 2also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character

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