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译

yì

HSK 4 Character Traditional 譯

What 译 means

1. to translate
2. to interpret

Example sentences

• 请翻译。
  Translate.
• 我在翻译。
  I am translating.
• 我来翻译。
  I will translate.
• 别翻译我！
  Don't translate me!
• 我是个翻译。
  I'm a translator.
• 请翻译这个。
  Please translate this.

Words starting with 译

• 译文yì wéntranslated text
• 译本yì běntranslation (translated version of a text)
• 译成yì chéngto translate into (Chinese, English etc)
• 译者yì zhětranslator (of writing)
• 译名yì míngtranslated names; transliteration
• 译员yì yuáninterpreter; translator (esp. oral)
• 译音yì yīnphonetic transcription; transliteration
• 译介yì jièto introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written…
• 译写yì xiěto translate; to render foreign words; to transliterate
• 译著yì zhùtranslated work
• 译语yì yǔtarget language (linguistics)
• 译词yì cí(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
• 译入语yì rù yǔtarget language (for translation)
• 译出语yì chū yǔsource language (for translation)
• 译意风yì yì fēngsimultaneous interpretation facilities (loanword from "earphone")
• 译码器yì mǎ qìdecoder

Words containing 译

• 翻译fān yìto translate; to interpret; translator
• 口译kǒu yìinterpreting
• 编译biān yìto translate and edit; translator-editor; (computing) to compile (source code)
• 音译yīn yìtransliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)…
• 传译chuán yìto translate; to interpret
• 破译pò yìto decipher; to decode
• 直译zhí yìliteral translation
• 意译yì yìmeaning (of foreign expression); translation of the meaning…
• 互译hù yìtwo-way translation
• 今译jīn yìmodern language version; modern translation; contemporary translation
• 创译chuàng yìtranscreation (adaptation of a creative work for an audience of a different culture)
• 形译xíng yìderivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants)…
• 改译gǎi yìto correct (improve) a translation
• 义译yì yìto translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests…
• 英译Yīng yìEnglish translation
• 被译bèi yìtranslated
• 超译chāo yìa translation that takes liberties with the original text
• 转译zhuǎn yìto translate (to another language); to convert
• 通译tōng yì(old) to translate; to interpret; translator
• 重译chóng yìto translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation)…
• 口译员kǒu yì yuáninterpreter; oral translator
• 直译器zhí yì qìinterpreter (computing)
• 编译器biān yì qìcompiler
• 编译家biān yì jiātranslator and editor

Characters built on 扌

These share the phonetic component 扌 (shǒu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 技jìskill
• 执zhíto execute (a plan); to grasp
• 拟nǐdoubtful; suspicious; variant of 拟
• 批pīto ascertain; to act on; to criticize
• 释shìto explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼

Characters that look like 译

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words
• 择zéto select; to choose; to pick over
• 绎yìcontinuous; to interpret; to unravel
• 讳huìto avoid mentioning; taboo word; name of deceased emperor or superior
• 驿yìpost horse; relay station
• 诛zhūto put (a criminal) to death; to punish

Sounds the same

Read yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 意(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 议to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
• 易easy; amiable; to change
• 亿100 million
• 亦also
• 艺skill; art
• 忆to recollect; to remember; memory
• 谊friendship; also pr. yí
• 义justice; righteousness; meaning
• 益benefit; profit; advantage
• 裔(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 异different; other; hetero-