giả tá

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 假借.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˩ taː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jaː˧˨ taː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jaː˨˩˦ taː˦˥]

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Noun

giả tá

1. (Chinese character classification) Chinese characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme.

See also

• lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
  • tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
  • hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
  • hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
  • chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
  • giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)