음독자

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 音 (“gloss”) + 讀 (“borrow”) + 字 (“character”)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈɯ(ː)mdo̞k̚t͡ɕ͈a̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [음(ː)독짜]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	eumdokja
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	eumdogja
McCune–Reischauer?	ŭmdokcha
Yale Romanization?	ūmtokca

Noun

음독자 • (eumdokja) (hanja 音讀字)

1. (linguistics) a semantically-adapted phonogram; in East Asia, a Chinese character used for all morphemes loaned from Classical Chinese and perceived as such; it retains both the semantic and phonetic values of the original Chinese.

   Coordinate terms: 훈가자(訓假字) (hun'gaja( 訓假字 )), 음가자(音假字) (eumgaja( 音假字 )), 훈독자(訓讀字) (hundokja( 訓讀字 ))