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音译
yīn yì
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Definitions
- 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