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Korean
Etymology
Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 假 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
- Phonetic hangul:
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
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| Revised Romanization? | eumgaja |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | eumgaja |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | ŭmgaja |
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| Yale Romanization? | ūmkaca |
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Noun
음가자 • (eumgaja) (hanja 音假字)
- (linguistics) a phonetically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write non-Chinese morphemes in a non-Chinese language; it retains only the phonetic value of the original Chinese.
- Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字), 훈가자(訓假字), 훈독자(訓讀字)
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