谐音字
xié​yīn​zì

homophonic character

  • created sense approved 谐音字/諧音字 · xié​yīn​zì · homophonic character — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    谐音字 / 諧音字

    xié​yīn​zì

    homophonic character

    Character that has the same or similar pronunciation as another character, often used for wordplay, puns, or substitution; in linguistics, sometimes used to refer to a phonogram (a character that represents a sound regardless of its original meaning)

    谐音 (literal) → 谐音/諧音 · xié​yīn · homophone 字 (literal) → 字 · zì · character

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense