(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case); inconsistent characters (e.g. 流 (liú), 梳 (shū) and 毓 (yù), which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)
Meaning
bùyīzhìzìbu4 yi1 zhi4 zi4
(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)
inconsistent characters (e.g. 流liú, 梳shū and 毓yù, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)
