countertomyEtymologyFrom counter- + -tomy, a calque of Chinese 反切.countertomy means fanqie. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.nounFanqie.“Here we need mention only such momentous developments as the creation of countertomy or cut-and-splice pseudospelling (fan-ch'ieh), generally attributed for the last thousand years to the Buddhists, which for the first time enabled Chinese to indicate the pronunciation of unknown graphs fairly unambiguously and analytically [...].”