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phonetic

adjective
🔊/fəˈnetɪk/
🔊/fəˈnetɪk/
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  1. using special symbols to represent each different speech sound表示语音的；音标的
    • the International Phonetic Alphabet国际音标
    • a phonetic symbol/transcription音标；注音
  2. (of a spelling or spelling system拼写或拼写系统) that closely matches the sounds represented与发音近似的
    • Spanish spelling is phonetic, unlike English spelling.与英语不同，西班牙语的拼写与发音相近。🔊🔊
  3. connected with the sounds of human speech语音的
    4. Word Originearly 19th cent.: from modern Latin phoneticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein ‘speak’.