transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfō-ˌnēm ]
noun
Etymology: French phonème, from Greek phōnēmat-, phōnēma speech sound, utterance, from phōnein to sound
Date: 1896
: any of the abstract units of the phonetic system of a language that correspond to a set of similar speech sounds (as the velar k of cool and the palatal k of keel ) which are perceived to be a single distinctive sound in the language