不一致字
Traditional form:
不一致字
Pinyin (reading):
bùyīzhìzì
Definitions:
- (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)
- inconsistent characters (e.g. 流 (liú), 梳 (shū) and 毓 (yù), which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)
Characters:
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 致 - to send; to present, to deliver; to cause; consequence
- 字 - character, letter, symbol, word
Traditional characters: