(yì) - to translate (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yìTraditional: 译
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Translation
to translate (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the speech radical 讠 signals an act of language, while the right-hand element (from 睪, yì) supplies the sound, giving the sense to translate or interpret.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 睪 (yì, phonetic)
Stroke order
译
Examples
句语。
Please translate this sentence into English.
。
Translation work is difficult.
。
He is a famous translator.
诗。
This poem is hard to translate into English.
语。
He translated the novel into French.
译 (yì) is a bound morpheme meaning to translate; it pairs with 翻 in 翻译 (fānyì), to translate.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 译.
Used in
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