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phonetic

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Synonyms: phonemic, phenetic, phronetic, phoretic, phrenetic, poetic, phonetics, phonic, phonetism, pontic, phyletic

Antonyms: phonemic, phenetic, phronetic, phoretic, phrenetic, poetic, phonetics, phonic, phonetism, pontic, phyletic

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Adjective

  1. Relating to the sounds of spoken [[language]].
  2. {{lb|en|linguistics}} Relating to [[phone]]s (as opposed to [[phoneme]]s).
  3. Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to [[orthographic]].

Noun

  1. {{lb|en|linguistics}} In such writing systems as the [[Chinese]] writing system, the portion of a [[phono-semantic]] character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; ''contrasted with'' [[semantic]] (which is usually the [[radical]]).

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