훈가자

Korean

Etymology

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

    Examples

    The Chinese character 火 (huǒ) means "fire", and the Old Korean word for "fire" was *pul. In one Old Korean text, the second syllable of the word *kapul meaning "stingray", which is etymologically unconnected to "fire", was written with 火.

    Pronunciation

    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɸʷu(ː)nɡa̠d͡ʑa̠]
    • Phonetic hangul: [훈(ː)가자]
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
    Romanizations
    Revised Romanization?hun'gaja
    Revised Romanization (translit.)?hungaja
    McCune–Reischauer?hun'gaja
    Yale Romanization?hwūnkaca

    Noun

    훈가자 • (hun'gaja) (hanja 訓假字)

    1. (linguistics) a semantically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character which is used as a phonogram to write a non-Chinese language, and whose phonetic value derives from the native semantic equivalent of the Chinese character
      Coordinate terms: 음독자(音讀字), 음가자(音假字), 훈독자(訓讀字)
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