English Dictionary

phonaesthesia

noun

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.

Phonaesthesia is the study of sound symbolism in language.

意味（1）

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.

For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.