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phonetic
[ fuh-net-ik ]
adjective
- Also ·Ա·· [] of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- corresponding to pronunciation:
phonetic transcription.
- agreeing with pronunciation:
phonetic spelling.
- concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.
noun
- (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
phonetic
/ əˈɛɪ /
adjective
- of or relating to phonetics
- denoting any perceptible distinction between one speech sound and another, irrespective of whether the sounds are phonemes or allophones Compare phonemic
- conforming to pronunciation
phonetic spelling
Derived Forms
- ˈԱپ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Ա···ly adverb
- ԴDz··Ա· adjective
- non··Ա·· adjective
- ܲ··Ա· adjective
- un··Ա·· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of phonetic1
Example Sentences
The exam comprised a series of papers on phonetics, grammar, and translation, which took 12 hours to complete.
Many proudly refer to themselves as DINKs — using the acronym in English — or dingke, the phonetic translation in Mandarin.
They say they have found four basic components they think make up this phonetic alphabet.
The description of what the researchers termed a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet” opens the possibility of conveying a much larger variety of information.
On Tuesday, the scientists reported that the whales use a much richer set of sounds than previously known, which they called a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet.”
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