giả tá

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 假借.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˩ taː˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaː˧˨ taː˨˩˦]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaː˨˩˦ taː˦˥]

Noun

(Chinese character classification) Chinese characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme.

See also

lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
- chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
- tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
- hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
- hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
- chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
- giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)

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