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一致字

Mandarin · pinyin yī zhì zì

(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case)
consistent characters (e.g. 搖 yáo, 遙 yáo and 謠 yáo, which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)

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Characters in this entry

一: yī · one; a, an; alone
致: zhì · send, deliver, present; cause
字: zì · letter, character, word

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1–4–4 · yi1 zhi4 zi4

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