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S vs Phonetic - What's the difference?

s | phonetic |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective phonetic is

relating to the sounds of spoken language.

As a noun phonetic is

(linguistics) in such logographic writing systems as the chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    phonetic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
  • (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)

    • Derived terms

    * phonetical * phonetically

    Related terms

    * phone * phoneme * phonemic * phonetics * semiphonetic * fauxnetic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) In such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical.