音意合译

Traditional form:

音意合譯

Pinyin (reading):

yīnyìhéyì

Definitions:

• formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋 (bīngqílín), 朗姆酒 (lǎngmǔjiǔ), 奶昔 (nǎixī) and 米老鼠 ( Mǐ Lǎoshǔ))

Characters:

• 音 - sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
• 意 - thought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, intention
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 译 - to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode

Traditional characters:

• 音 - sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
• 意 - thought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, intention
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 譯 - to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode