phonophoric

English

Etymology

phono- +‎ -phore +‎ -ic

Adjective

phonophoric (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Sound-bearing; said of certain characters in otherwise ideographic languages.
   • 2016, Haeree Park, The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE):

     The graphic component in a character that plays a phonetic role is called phonophoric, and the one that plays a semantic role is called signific.