Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 杂剧[zá jù] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[yuán qǔ sì dà jiā]
1.(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case)2.consistent characters (e.g. 摇[yáo], 遥[yáo] and 谣[yáo], which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)
1.(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case)2.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)