훈독자

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Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 訓讀字, from (gloss) + (borrow) + (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.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?hundokja
Revised Romanization (translit.)?hundogja
McCune–Reischauer?hundokcha
Yale Romanization?hwūntokca

Noun

훈독자 (hundokja) (hanja 訓讀字)

  1. (linguistics) a semantically-adapted logogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a logogram to write non-Chinese morphemes in a non-Chinese language; it retains only the semantic value of the original Chinese.
    Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字), 음가자(音假字), 훈가자(訓假字)

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