the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that word having different meaning have the same form, i.e., different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both. 同形异义是指意义不同的词有着相同的语言形式的现象,即不同的词发音上或拼写上,或者两个方面都相同。