using special symbols to represent each different speech sound 表示语音的；音标的 the International Phonetic Alphabet 国际音标 a phonetic symbol/transcription 音标；注音
(of a spelling or spelling system 拼写或拼写系统 that closely matches the sounds represented 与发音近似的 connected with the sounds of human speech 语音的
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from modern Latin phoneticus, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein ‘speak’.