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諧聲

简谐声 · 繁諧聲

Mandarin · pinyin xié shēng

combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功 gōng, which has signific 力 lì and phonetic 工 gōng (also referred to as 形聲 xíng shēng)
(of words or characters) homophonous

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諧: Look up this written character
聲: shēng · sound, voice, noise; tone; music
谐: xié · harmonize, agree; joke, jest
声: shēng · sound, voice, noise; tone; music

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2–1 · xie2 sheng1

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pictophonetic characters, with one element indicating meaning and the other indicating sound

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