Definition
音符 can refer to either a musical note (the symbol representing pitch and duration) or a phonetic component in a Chinese phono-semantic compound character (the part that gives a clue to pronunciation, like 包 in 泡, 炮, 袍). In the phonetic sense, it's a technical term used in Chinese character analysis.
n.
musical notephonetic component (of a phono-semantic character)
Examples
- 音符。Tā zài yuèpǔ shàng xiě le yí ge yīn fú.She wrote a musical note on the sheet music.
- “”音符“”。Hànzì “bǎo” de yīn fú shì “bāo”.The phonetic component of the character 饱 is 包.
- 音符。Xuéxí yīn fú yǒu zhù yú jìyì xíngshēngzì de dúyīn.Learning about phonetic components helps remember the pronunciation of phono-semantic characters.
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