훈독자

Korean

Etymology

    Sino-Korean word from 訓讀字, from (gloss) + (borrow) + (character)

    Pronunciation

    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈɸʷu(ː)ndo̞k̚t͡ɕ͈a̠]
    • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
      • 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)

    See also