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Korean
Etymology
Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 讀 (“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? | eumdokja |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | eumdogja |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | ŭmdokcha |
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| Yale Romanization? | ūmtokca |
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Noun
음독자 • (eumdokja) (hanja 音讀字)
- (linguistics) a semantically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character used for all morphemes loaned from Classical Chinese and perceived as such; it retains both the semantic and phonetic values of the original Chinese.
- Coordinate terms: 훈가자(訓假字), 음가자(音假字), 훈독자(訓讀字)