Kindle

Kindle
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Kindle, Amazon's e-reader and e-book brand

Examples

Tā yòng Kindle kàn le yī zhěng běn Yīngwén xiǎoshuō.
He read a whole English novel on his Kindle.
Kindle Zhōngguó diànzǐ shūdiàn yǐjīng tíngzhǐ yùnyíng le.
The Kindle China e-bookstore has stopped operating.

Tips

culture
Amazon's Kindle Chinese store ran from 2013 until June 2023, when Amazon shut it down — leaving a cohort of mainland users with paid libraries that could only be downloaded for one more year. In Chinese tech press the device is sometimes nicknamed ('instant-noodle lid') for its size and the joke that it ends up holding down 方便面 cup lids.
usage
Almost always written in Latin letters in Chinese text. There is no standard Chinese transliteration; speakers say it as English 'Kindle'.