phonetic
phonetic - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/
- (US) IPA: /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/, [fəˈnɛɾɪk]
- Hyphenation: pho‧net‧ic
Adjective
phonetic (not comparable)
- Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
- (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
- Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
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Noun
phonetic (plural phonetics)
- (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).