🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

音位学的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yīnwèi-xué de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Phonemic/fəˈniː.mɪk/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这是一个音位学的对比研究。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to the phonemes or distinctive sound units of a particular language.

    "The researcher conducted a detailed phonemic analysis of the regional dialect."
  2. 2

    Consisting of or represented by phonemes.

    "The writing system provides a largely phonemic representation of spoken words."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word 'phōnēma' meaning 'sound made', combining 'phōnē' (voice, sound) with the suffix '-ic'. It entered modern linguistic terminology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the development of structural linguistics to describe the distinctive sound units of a language.

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