形声 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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See also: 形聲

Kanji in this term
形	声
けい Grade: 2	せい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
形聲 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese compound 形聲 (MC heng syeng, literally “form, shape + sound”).

The kan'on, so likely a borrowing from later in the history of Middle Chinese.

• (Tokyo) けーせー [kèéséé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ke̞ːse̞ː]

形(けい)声(せい) • (keisei) 

1. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.

• 六書(りくしょ) (rikusho, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • 指(し)事(じ) (shiji, “ideogram”)
  • 象(しょう)形(けい) (shōkei, “pictogram”)
  • 形(けい)声(せい) (keisei, “phono-semantic compound”)
  • 会(かい)意(い) (kaī, “compound ideograph”)
  • 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū, “derivative cognate”)
  • 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha, “phonetic loan”)

• Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN