諧かい声せい

noun

vocal harmony; harmonious voices

Refers to voices blending beautifully, often in a musical or poetic context. Less common in everyday speech.

• 合がっ唱しょう団だんの諧かい声せいがホールに響ひびいた。

  The harmonious voices of the choir echoed through the hall.

noun

phono-semantic character; semasio-phonetic character

Technical term in Chinese character classification (六書). Refers to characters combining a semantic radical and a phonetic component. Synonymous with 形声 (けいせい).

See also: 形声

• 「河かわ」は諧かい声せい文も字じで、さんずいが意い味みを、可かが音おとを表あらわす。

  「河」 is a phono-semantic character: the water radical gives the meaning, and 可 gives the sound.