Re: [Lingo] kanji with the same onyomi

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

2009/2/24 steve smith <sjs@example.com>:
> Some time ago I was told that in some cases groups of kanji have the same
> onyomi and that the onyomi is determined by the right-most of the sub-kanji
> within the kanji.  They had a name for this which I can't remember.

 形声文字 (けいせいもじ)??

> At the time I was a bit overwhelmed by trying to remember the kanji I knew.
> Now those teachers are gone and I can't find a reference.
>
> I think an example might be:
> 壌嬢穣譲醸
> all of which have the onyomi of ジョウ.
>
> Does anyone know if this is correct or not?

Mostly. In about 85% of hanzi/kanji part of the character indicates the
pronunciation. See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjitypes.html  and
skip down to the section on 形声文字.

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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