Définition de « phonetic » en Anglais

adjective

1. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.

2. (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).

3. Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.

   • All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.

noun

1. (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).