are distinct literary and colloquial readings. However, some homographs (多音字) such as 行 (Mandarin: háng or xíng, Japanese: an, gō, gyō) have more than...

and grammatical function. Many Chinese varieties have homographs, called 多音字 (pinyin: duōyīnzì) or 重形字 (pinyin: chóngxíngzì), 破音字 (pinyin: pòyīnzì). Modern...

more than one character (homophonic characters). Polyphonic characters (多音字) are characters with two or more pronunciations, monophonic characters (單音字...

characters (多音字) are characters with two or more pronunciations, as opposed to monophonic characters with only one. A polyphonic monosemous character (多音同義字)...

National Highway 212 Dangxiang List of administrative divisions of Gansu 甘肃宕昌县地名多音字屡遇尴尬 官方统一读音 on chinanews.com of February 17, 2014 "宕昌简介". Tanchang County...

Semantic-phonetic characters (also called "phono-semantic characters", 意音字, 形聲字) consist of semantic components and phonetic components. The semantic...