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不一致字

bù yī zhì zì

4-character word

What 不一致字 means

1. (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)
2. inconsistent characters (e.g. {流|liú}, {梳|shū} and {毓|yù}, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)

The characters in 不一致字

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 致zhì(bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite
• 字zìletter; symbol; character

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