粵

形jing4聲sing1

simp形声
jing4 sing1xíng shēng

English

  1. ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
  2. also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
  3. phono-semantic compound characters; radical-phonetic characters

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 一種將漢字分類嘅方式:形聲字可以分為兩部份,一部份表達發音,另一部份表達字義;六書之一

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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