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Phono-semantic compound
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Chinese character classification.
Phono-semantic compounds
Phono-semantic compounds (形声; 形聲; xíngshēng; 'form and sound' or 谐声; 諧聲; xiéshēng; 'sound agreement') represent most of the modern Chinese lexicon. They are created as compounds of at least two components: