zhuǎn​yì

transferred meaning

转义 轉義 zhuǎn​yì
transferred meaning
A new meaning of a word derived from its original or common sense, such as a figurative sense or connotation.
to escape
(computing) to treat a character that normally has a special meaning as a plain character; to use an escape character.
escape sequence
(computing) a character or sequence of characters that invokes an alternative interpretation of subsequent characters

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.052 per million

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