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ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功, which has signific 力 and phonetic 工 (also referred to as 形聲｜形声) / (of words or characters) homophonous
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