yīn​yì

transliteration

音译 (音譯) yīn​yì
transliteration noun
the process of rendering a foreign word or name into Chinese characters based on its phonetic value
phonetic writing noun
using characters to represent the sound of a Chinese word or name when the standard characters are unknown

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.74 per million

Sources

Definitions
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