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译

yì

to translate; to render

A scholar at a desk works between two open books
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Character

译 yì

Strokes
7
Radical
讠 — words, speech
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
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Example phrases

  • 这部小说被译成多种语言后,才真正进入国际文学视野。 Zhè bù xiǎoshuō bèi yì chéng duō zhǒng yǔyán hòu, cái zhēnzhèng jìnrù guójì wénxué shìyě. Only after the novel was translated into many languages did it truly enter the field of international literature.
  • 这篇文章很难,他花了三天才把它译成中文。 Zhè piān wénzhāng hěn nán, tā huále sān tiān cái bǎ tā yì chéng Zhōngwén. This article was difficult; he spent three days before he managed to translate it into Chinese.
  • 请把这段话译成简单的语言,让大家都看得懂。 Qǐng bǎ zhè duàn huà yì chéng jiǎndān de yǔyán, ràng dàjiā dōu kànde dǒng. Please translate this passage into simple language so that everyone can understand it.

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