음독자

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 讀 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɯ(ː)mdo̞k̚t͡ɕ͈a̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [음(ː)독짜]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?eumdokja
Revised Romanization (translit.)?eumdogja
McCune–Reischauer?ŭmdokcha
Yale Romanization?ūmtokca

Noun

음독자 • (eumdokja) (hanja 音讀字)

  1. (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)
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