Jisho

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Noun
1. phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic scriptSee also 表意文字
Wikipedia definition
2. Phonogram (linguistics)A phonogram is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech sound) or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet or the Japanese kana. For example, "igh" is an English-language phonogram that represents the hard "I" sound in "high. " Whereas the word phonics refers to the sounds, the word phonogram refers to the letter(s) that represent that sound.
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表音文字 【ひょうおんもんじ】

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