音译

Traditional form:

音譯

Pinyin (reading):

yīnyì

Definitions:

• transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
• characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
• transcription (linguistics)
• to transcribe phonetic symbols

Characters:

• 音 - sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
• 译 - to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode

Traditional characters:

• 音 - sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
• 譯 - to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode