음가자

Korean

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɯ(ː)mɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
    • Phonetic hangul: [음(ː)가자]
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
    Romanizations
    Revised Romanization?eumgaja
    Revised Romanization (translit.)?eumgaja
    McCune–Reischauer?ŭmgaja
    Yale Romanization?ūmkaca

    Noun

    음가자 • (eumgaja) (hanja 音假字)

    1. (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)

    See also

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