<entry id="2155063" stat="R" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2249190</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>同音異字</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>どうおんいじ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>heterograph</gloss>
<gloss>word with the same pronunciation as another but a different written form</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2007-12-20 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-10-30 13:56:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Wikipedia gives plenty of examples that don't have similar meanings (including ones with opposite meanings).
Homophones can have the same written form.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%8C%E9%9F%B3%E7%95%B0%E5%AD%97
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
"Homophones that are spelled differently are also called heterographs, e.g. to, too, and two."</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,2 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;homophone&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;heterograph&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;word with the same pronunciation as another but a different written form&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-10-31 10:59:12" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>So GG5's explanation is right but they got the wrong word?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>GG5: 同音異字 a homophone; a word with the same pronunciation (and similar meaning) as 
another but a different written form; words close in meaning pronounced the same but 
written differently.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5 +5 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;同音異字&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;Dr同音異字&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-11-01 03:07:51" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'm really not a fan of the word "heterograph", I've never heard it used to describe any type of homophones in Japanese or any other language.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>"heterographs in Japanese" 2 googits
"homophones in Japanese" 6,580 googits

"japanese homophones" 6,500 googits
"japanese heterographs" 2 googits

"japanese" "heterograph" site:ac.jp 3 googits
"japanese" "homophone" site:ac.jp 476 googits

"heterograph" site:ac.uk 12 googits
"homophone" site:ac.uk 6,030 googits</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5 +5 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;Dr同音異字&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;同音異字&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-11-01 03:11:07" stat="R">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>fork</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>