phoneme

US: /ˈfoʊnim/


English Vietnamese dictionary


phoneme /'founi:m/
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    • (ngôn ngữ học) âm vị

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun
(phonetics) any one of the set of smallest units of speech in a language that distinguish one word from another. In English, the 's' in 'sip' and the 'z' in 'zip' represent two different phonemes.
phonemic adjective