phonetic symbol

English Thesaurus

1. a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	character, grapheme, graphic symbol,
definition	:	a written symbol that is used to represent speech (noun.communication)

part meronym	:	phonetic transcription,
definition	:	a transcription intended to represent each distinct speech sound with a separate symbol (noun.communication)

member meronym	:	phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet,
definition	:	an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech (noun.communication)