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Mandarin · pinyin yīn yì

transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
transcription (linguistics)
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音: yīn · sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation; Kangxi radical 180
譯: Look up this written character
译: yì · translate; decode; encode

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Mandarin tones

1–4 · yin1 yi4

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verb

(linguistics, translation studies) to transcribe a word, particularly into Chinese characters, from its original pronunciation

noun

(linguistics, translation studies) transcription, particularly into Chinese characters
(linguistics, translation studies, proscribed) transliteration

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