形声

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 形聲 (MC heng syeng, literally “form, shape + sound”).

The kan'on, so likely a borrowing from later in the history of Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) けーせー [kèéséé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ke̞ːse̞ː]

Noun

形(けい)声(せい) • (keisei) 

1. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.

References

• Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN