훈독자

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 訓讀字, from 訓 (“gloss”) + 讀 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)

Pronunciation

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

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