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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yì | yi4
English translation
to translate
to interpret
to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

Contains the radical

yán

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

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speech

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

yán

Semantic compound

yán

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农舍 nóng shè 概述 gài shù ( jiē )

On Cottages in General ( Abridged )

译文 yì wén qiē 原意 yuán yì .

The translation does not quite correspond to the original.

zhè běn Shū dòu de shì 译本 yì běn , 是挪威 Wén yuán zhù .

I read the book in translation, not in the original Norwegian.

zài 翻译 fānyì 方面 fāngmiàn yǒu hěn shēn de 造诣 zào yì .

He is deep in translation.

觉得 juéde yòng 翻译 fānyì Jiào 学生 xuésheng 比较 bǐjiào hǎo .

He believed in the students being taught on the translation method.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
翻译 fānyì to translate翻譯
破译 pò yì to break a code破譯
to translate
编译 biān yì to translate and edit編譯
直译 zhí yì literal translation直譯
译文 yì wén translated text譯文
音译 yīn yì transcription (linguistics)音譯
译员 yì yuán interpreter譯員
译名 yì míng translated names譯名
译本 yì běn translation (translated version of a text)譯本
口译 kǒu yì interpreting口譯
意译 yì yì paraphrase意譯
译者 yì zhě translator (of writing)譯者
译成 yì chéng to translate into (Chinese, English etc)譯成
传译 chuán yì to translate傳譯
译音 yì yīn transliteration譯音
摘译 zhāi yì quoted (from)摘譯
机器翻译 jī qì fān yì machine translation機器翻譯
笔译 bǐ yì written translation筆譯
编译器 biān yì qì compiler編譯器
转译 zhuǎn yì to convert轉譯
通译 tōng yì to interpret通譯
翻译者 fān yì zhě translator翻譯者

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Decomposition

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