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不一致字

Mandarin · pinyin bù yī zhì zì

(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)
inconsistent characters (e.g. 流 liú, 梳 shū and 毓 yù, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)

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不: bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
一: yī · one; a, an; alone
致: zhì · send, deliver, present; cause
字: zì · letter, character, word

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4–1–4–4 · bu4 yi1 zhi4 zi4

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