Re: [Lingo] kanji with the same onyomi

[steve smith <sjs@example.com>]

Jim B reen wrote:
> 2009/2/24 steve smith <sjs@example.com>:
> > Some time ago I was told that in some cases groups of kanji have the same
> > onyomi and that the onyomi is determined by the right-most of the sub-kanji
> > within the kanji.  They had a name for this which I can't remember.
>
>  形声文字 (けいせいもじ)??
>
> > ...
>
> Mostly. In about 85% of hanzi/kanji part of the character indicates the
> pronunciation. See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjitypes.html  and
> skip down to the section on 形声文字.

Thank you David and Jim.

I don't remember if the term my teacher used was 「形声文字」but this is 
exactly what I was looking for.

Jim -- this page on Kanjitypes is great!  Thank you very much.

Steve S.