- 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])
Characters
- 义 (義): surname Yi; (Tw) abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4], Italy
- 译 (譯): to translate; to interpret
Resources
- Wiktionary: 义译
- MDBG: 义译
- Examples with 义译 on Tatoeba
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