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Phonic vs Phonetic - What's the difference?

phonic | phonetic |

As adjectives the difference between phonic and phonetic

is that phonic is of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic while phonetic is relating to the sounds of spoken language.

As a noun phonetic is

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.

phonic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.

    • See also

    * audio

    Anagrams

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    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.