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译名 yì míng translated names / transliteration
音译 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) / to transcribe phonetic symbols
译音 yì yīn phonetic transcription / transliteration
表音 biǎo yīn phonetic / phonological / transliteration
摩诃 mó hē transliteration of Sanskrit mahā, great
林卡 lín kǎ transliteration of Tibetan lingka: garden
阿 ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]
洛 Luò used in transliteration
弗 fú not (literary) / used in transliteration
莎 shā katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
茜 xī used in the transliteration of people's names
呋 fū used in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃[fu1 nan2], furan or 呋喃西林[fu1 nan2 xi1 lin2], furacilinum / old variant of 趺[fu1]
卟 bǔ used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and porphin 卟吩[bu3 fen1]
啉 lín used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and quinoline 喹啉[kui2 lin2]
哌 pài used in transliteration
噻 sāi used in transliteration
阇 shé (used in transliteration from Sanskrit)
闍 shé used in Buddhist transliteration
嚟 lì used in transliteration
威氏注音法 Wēi shì zhù yīn fǎ Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese
爱老虎你 ài lǎo hǔ nǐ I love you (jocular transliteration from English)
梵汉对音 fàn hàn duì yīn Sanskrit-Chinese transliteration
閦 chù crowd / transliteration of Sanskrit 'kso', e.g. Aksobhya Buddha 阿閦佛
额菲尔士 E2 fēi ěr shì Everest (name) / Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843 / transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan) / Nepalese: Sagarmatha
义译 yì yì formation of a loanword using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯|音译[yin1 yi4]) (e.g. 超文本[chao1 wen2 ben3], 火車|火车[huo3 che1])
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