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译
譯
yì
1. to translate
2. to interpret
Very Common • Top 2%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

译
yì
to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode
HSK 4 7 丶

Compound Words (20)

音译
yīnyì
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
今译
jīnyì
modern language version
传译
chuányì
to translate
口译
kǒuyì
interpreting
被译
bèiyì
translated
译名
yìmíng
translated names
译员
yìyuán
interpreter
译写
yìxiě
to translate
译成
yìchéng
to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
译文
yìwén
translated text
译者
yìzhě
translator (of writing)
译自
yìzì
translation from
译词
yìcí
translated word (such as company [[公司]] or bus [[巴士]] or club [[俱樂部|俱乐部]])
译语
yìyǔ
target language (linguistics)
译音
yìyīn
phonetic transcription
转译
zhuǎnyì
to translate (to another language)
通译
tōngyì
(old) to translate
重译
chóngyì
to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation)
互译
hùyì
two-way translation
意译
yìyì
meaning (of foreign expression)

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
1,197
Word Frequency Rank
1,580 of 84,292

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