| 阿 | [à, ㄚˋ, 阿] (phonetic character) |
| 荻 | [dí, ㄉㄧˊ, 荻] Anaphalis yedoensis (pearly everlasting reed); used in Japanese names with phonetic value Ogi |
| 注音符号 | [Zhù yīn fú hào, ㄓㄨˋ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ, 注音符号 / 注音符號] Annotated Sounds, a phonetic transliteration for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan; also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ |
| 注音 | [zhù yīn, ㄓㄨˋ , 注音 / 註音] Annotated Sounds, a phonetic transliteration for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan; also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ |
| 喉 | [hóu, ㄏㄡˊ, 喉 / 睺] appears as phonetic ho, especially in words taken from Sanskrit |
| 送气 | [sòng qì, ㄙㄨㄥˋ ㄑㄧˋ, 送气 / 送氣] aspiration (phonetics, explosion of breath on consonants distinguishing Chinese p, t from b, d) |
| 连线 | [lián xiàn, ㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄢˋ, 连线 / 連線] connecting line; slur indicating legato (in music); liaison (in phonetics); ligature (in typesetting) |
| 反 | [fǎn, ㄈㄢˇ, 反] contrary; in reverse; inside-out or upside-down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切 phonetic system |
| 客 | [kè, ㄎㄜˋ, 客] customer; visitor; guest; guest web user (e.g. blogger 博客); phonetic -ke, -ge, -co, -key etc in loan words |
| 苾 | [bì, ㄅㄧˋ, 苾] (phonetic); fragrant |
| 法兰斯 | [Fǎ lán sī, ㄈㄚˇ ㄌㄢˊ ㄙ, 法兰斯 / 法蘭斯] France (phonetic transliteration) |
| 德意志 | [Dé yì zhì, ㄉㄜˊ ㄧˋ ㄓˋ, 德意志] German (phonetic rendition of "Deutsch"); Germany |
| 妮 | [nī, ㄋㄧ, 妮] girl; phonetic "ni" (in girl's name) |
| 三十六字母 | [sān shí liù zì mǔ, ㄙㄢ ㄕˊ ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ, 三十六字母] thirty six initial consants of Song phonetic theory |
| 引得 | [yǐn dé, ˇ ㄉㄜˊ, 引得] index (phonetic loan) |
| 假借 | [jiǎ jiè, ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ, 假借] loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan |
| 假借字 | [jiǎ jiè zì, ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄗˋ, 假借字] loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan |
| 哢 | [lòng, ㄌㄨㄥˋ, 哢] (phonetic); -r + one (chem.) |
| 韵母 | [yùn mǔ, ㄩㄣˋ ㄇㄨˇ, 韵母 / 韻母] medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone); the rhyming part of a Chinese syllable; rhyme; vowel; character used in traditional phonetics to indicate value of rhyme; final sound; phoneme |
| 蒲 | [pú, ㄆㄨˊ, 蒲] refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis; common cattail; bullrush; surname Pu; old place name; phonetic po or pu |
| 苏 | [sū, ㄙㄨ, 苏 / 蘇] Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃 or 蘇聯|苏联, Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏 and Suzhou city 蘇州|苏州; surname Su |
| 哐 | [kuāng, ㄎㄨㄤ, 哐] phonetic; onomat. clang; see 哐啷, clatter |
| 噶 | [gá, ㄍㄚˊ, 噶] phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds); Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha; dialect final particle (esp. in Yunnan) similar to 了 le |
| 字音 | [zì yì, ㄗˋ ㄧˋ, 字音] phonetic value of a character |
| 拼读 | [pīn dú, ㄆㄧㄣ ㄉㄨˊ, 拼读 / 拼讀] phonetic reading; combine sounds into words |
| 拼音 | [pīn yīn, ㄆㄧㄣ , 拼音] phonetic writing; pinyin (Chinese romanization) |
| 拼音字母 | [pīn yīn zì mǔ, ㄆㄧㄣ ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ, 拼音字母] phonetic letters |
| 拼音文字 | [pīn yīn wén zì, ㄆㄧㄣ ㄨㄣˊ ㄗˋ, 拼音文字] phonetic alphabet; alphabetic writing system |
| 支那 | [Zhī nà, ㄓ ㄋㄚˋ, 支那] phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory |
| 斐 | [fěi, ㄈㄟˇ, 斐] phonetic fei or fi; surname Fei; elegant; phi (Greek letter Φφ) |
| 标音法 | [biāo yīn fǎ, ㄅㄧㄠ ㄈㄚˇ, 标音法 / 標音法] phonetic transcription; system of representing spoken sounds |
| 音韵 | [yīn yùn, ㄩㄣˋ, 音韵 / 音韻] phonetics of Chinese, 音 |
| 维奇 | [Wéi qí, ㄨㄟˊ ㄑㄧˊ, 维奇 / 維奇] Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555); phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names |
| 形声 | [xíng shēng, ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ, 形声] radical 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 |
| 形声字 | [xíng shēng zì, ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄗˋ, 形声字 / 形聲字] radical 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 |
| 音读 | [yīn dú, ㄉㄨˊ, 音读 / 音讀] reading or phonetic value of a character |
| 升调 | [shēng diào, ㄕㄥ ㄉㄧㄠˋ, 升调 / 昇調] rising tone (phonetics, e.g. on a question in English) |
| 六书 | [liù shū, ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄕㄨ, 六书 / 六書] Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (radical plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 |
| 梯恩梯 | [tī ēn tī, ㄊㄧ ㄣ ㄊㄧ, 梯恩梯] TNT (trinitrotoluene, phonetic load) |
| 伽 | [jiā, ㄐㄧㄚ, 伽] traditionally used as phonetic for ga; also pronounced ga1 |