Phonetically similar sounds might be related in two ways.

相似的语音之间可能有两种关系。

Though phonetically alike, they are written with different ideographs.

虽然语音相同，它们的书写却不同。

In actual speech, a phoneme is realized phonetically as a certain phone.

在实际会话中，音位总是以某个音素的形式得以体现出来。

"Duang" seems to be an example of onomatopoeia, a word that phonetically imitates a sound.

duang似乎是一个拟声词例，用来模仿一种声音。

I was awash in a sea of characters that were all visually interesting but phonetically mute.

我被汉字的大海完全淹没了，它们看起来很有趣，可是完全不给什么发音线索。