- formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋[bing1 qi2 lin2], 朗姆酒[lang3 mu3 jiu3], 奶昔[nai3 xi1] and 米老鼠[Mi3 Lao3 shu3])
Characters
- 音 (音): sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
- 意 (意): Italy; Italian (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- 合 (合): 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- 译 (譯): to translate; to interpret
Resources
- Wiktionary: 音意合译
- MDBG: 音意合译
- Examples with 音意合译 on Tatoeba
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