interchangeable character

Certain character with same or similar pronunciation become accustomed as a alternative form to the original one

EntityQ841432

Also known as borrowing characters · interchangeable character · borrowing character · Tongjia · Tongjiazi

Subclass of: variant sinogram

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Chinese characters are generally logographs, but can be further categorized based on the manner of their creation or derivation. Some characters may be analysed structurally as compounds created from smaller components, while some are not decomposable in this way. A small number of characters originate as pictographs and ideographs, but the vast majority are what are called phono-semantic compounds, which involve an element of pronunciation in their meaning.

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Opposite of: etymological character
Partially coincident with: rebus character
specialized semantic variant

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2 identifiers linking interchangeable character across the web's reference databases

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