多音字

Chinese

		many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-	sound; noise; news	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (多音字)		多	音	字
simp. #(多音字)		多	音	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duōyīnzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ ㄧㄣ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): do¹ jam¹ zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duōyīnzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ ㄧㄣ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duoyinzìh
    • Wade–Giles: to¹-yin¹-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: dwō-yīn-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duointzyh
    • Palladius: доиньцзы (doinʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ in⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: do¹ jam¹ zi⁶
    • Yale: dō yām jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: do¹ jam¹ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: do¹ yem¹ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔː⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ t͡siː²²/

Examples
覺 (pronounced jué in 感覺 but jiào in 睡覺) 得 (pronounced děi in 總得, dé in 取得, and de in 記得)

Noun

多音字

1. (linguistics) character with two or more readings; heteronym

   Antonym: 單音字 / 单音字 (dānyīnzì)

See also

• 破讀字／破读字
• 破音字

Japanese

Kanji in this term
多	音	字
た Grade: 2	おん Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠õ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑi]

Noun

多(た)音(おん)字(じ) • (taonji) 

1. (linguistics) character with two or more readings, heteronym