phonemic

UK /fəˈniː.mɪk/ US /fəˈni.mɪk/

adj 3

Collocations

ADJ.

finished

VERB + PHONEMIC

spelling, tone, writing

PHONEMIC + NOUN

analysis, chinese, kana, length, mora, pinyin, system, we're

PREP.

in, in

ADV.

highly, quite

adj

Relating to phonemes.

We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology.

Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

Tone is phonemic in Chinese.

Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes.

Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled.

adverb — by phonemics

We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology.

Wiktionary

Tone is phonemic in Chinese.

Wiktionary

Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled.

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All children in the PRC learn the Roman alphabet for phonemic pinyin.

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As a nationalist feeling, real Japanese think that the heart of their language is the phonemic Kana, not the logographic Kanji.

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English spelling is not phonemic.

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