不一致字 in English bu4 yi1 zhi4 zi4 Meaning

Meanings

  • (orthography) inconsistent words (for example: "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)
  • inconsistent characters (for example: 流[liu2], 梳[shu1] and 毓[yu4], which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)

Simplified Characters

不 一 致 字

Traditional Characters

不 一 致 字

Pinyin

bu4 yi1 zhi4 zi4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

不bu4(negative prefix) 一yi1one 致zhi4(bound form) fine 字zi4letter