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音译

yīn yì

2-character word Traditional 音譯

What 音译 means

1. transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
2. characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
3. transcription (linguistics)
4. to transcribe phonetic symbols

The characters in 音译

• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)
• 译yìto translate; to interpret

Example sentences

• Tatoeba 计划获得了音译的语言为日语、汉语、上海话、格鲁吉亚语及乌兹别克语。
  T atoeba jìhuà huòdé le yīnyì de yǔyán wèi Rìyǔ, Hànyǔ, Shànghǎihuà, Gélǔjíyà yǔ jí Wūzībiékè yǔ.
  The languages that have been transliterated within the Tatoeba Project are Japanese, Chinese, Shanghainese, Georgian and Uzbek.

Sounds the same

Read yīn yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 音义sound and meaning