All children in the PRC learn the Roman alphabet for phonemic pinyin.
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Phonemic
//fəˈniː.mɪk//
Synonyms for "phonemic" (110 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
15 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 22 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հնչույթային adj (relating to phonemes)
Catalan
2 entries- fonemàtic adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonemàtic adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Dutch
2 entries- fonemisch adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonemisch adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Finnish
3 entries- foneeminen adj (relating to phonemes)
- foneeminen adj (relating to phonemes)
- foneeminen adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
French
1 entries- phonémique adj (relating to phonemes)
Galician
2 entries- fonémico adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonémico adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
German
2 entries- phonemisch adj (relating to phonemes)
- phonemisch adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Hindi
2 entries- ध्वन्यात्मक adj (relating to phonemes)
- ध्वन्यात्मक adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Indonesian
1 entries- fonemis adj (relating to phonemes)
Interlingua
1 entries- phonemic adj (relating to phonemes)
Italian
2 entries- fonematico adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonemico adj (relating to phonemes)
Japanese
1 entries- 音韻論 adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Malay
1 entries- fonemik adj (relating to phonemes)
Occitan
1 entries- fonemic adj (relating to phonemes)
Polish
1 entries- fonemiczny adj (relating to phonemes)
Portuguese
4 entries- fonémico adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonémico adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
- fonêmico adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonêmico adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Russian
1 entries- фоне́мный adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- fòineimeach adj (relating to phonemes)
- fòineimeach adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Sindhi
1 entries- وايومِي adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Spanish
3 entries- fonemático adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonémico adj (relating to phonemes)
- fonémico adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Tagalog
2 entries- multinigin adj (relating to phonemes)
- multinigin adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Yiddish
2 entries- פֿאָנעמיש adj (relating to phonemes)
- פֿאָנעמיש adj (relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
As a nationalist feeling, real Japanese think that the heart of their language is the phonemic Kana, not the logographic Kanji.
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English spelling is not phonemic.
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A phonemic writing system as in Spanish or Greek is like musical notation.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.