译音

譯音
yìyīn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 transliteration
  2. 2 to transliterate

Examples

HSK 3
" Kāfēi " hé " shāfā " dōu shì Yīngyǔ cí de yìyīn.
The Chinese words for "coffee" and "sofa" are both transliterations of the English.
HSK 5
Wàiguó dìmíng de yìyīn chángcháng bù tǒngyī, yí ge chéngshì kěnéng yǒu hǎojǐ zhǒng xiěfǎ.
Transliterations of foreign place names are often inconsistent, so one city can be written several ways.

Tips

usage
音译 is the more common word for the method, 'to transliterate'; 译音 usually names the result, in the pattern A 是 B 的 译音 'A is a transliteration of B'. The opposite approach, translating the meaning, is 意译.

Stroke Order

译 yì
音 yīn