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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)

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