Meanings of phonetic writing system in English

There's even a second, phonetic script transcript documenting the idiosyncrasies of the his accent.

Another example: Japanese use both a phonetic script (kana) and a pictographic script (kanji).

A row of phonetic script.

That's in part because it is a phonetic script, and some letters are designed to emulate the shape of the speaker's mouth when pronounced.

Meanwhile, I'm stretching the limits of my formal Japanese, arranging climbing outings and interviews via borrowed cell phones and hack e-mails written in phonetic script.