Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words. 谐音,声音的和谐谐音或悦耳的声音,尤指词的音质
phonetic
[ adj ]
of or relating to speech sounds
<adj.pert> phonetic transcription
of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
<adj.pert> phonetic analysis
Phonetic \Pho*net"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a sound, tone; akin to Gr. ? to speak: cf. F. phon['e]tique. See {Ban} a proclamation.] 1. Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
2. Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to {ideographic}; as, a phonetic notation.
{Phonetic spelling}, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.
Essentially, the Aztecs and their neighbours used pictograms and ideograms, although by the 16th century they were beginning to evolve phonetic symbols.
A phonetic spelling feature allows the user to type the word the way it sounds, even if that spelling is incorrect.
Apple wants to land some of the school orders with a MacIntosh model that is designed to handle Japanese ideographs and phonetic characters.