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HSK
to translate / to interpret / translator / interpreter / translation / interpretation / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 4
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  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross
HSK 4
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
two-way translation
close-fitting / closest (translation)
HSK 7-9
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場|动物农场
machine translation
modern language version / modern translation / contemporary translation
a translation that takes liberties with the original text
literal translation
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  *译* | 译* | *译
to translate / to interpret
HSK 7-9
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
translated work
simultaneous translation
ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households / also translated as Marquis
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
written translation
to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
to translate / to interpret
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫 (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健
English translation
original work (not translation or abridged)
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
Chinese and English two-way translation
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩
machine translation
to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯|音译) (e.g. 超文本, 火車|火车)
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
machine translation (abbr. for 機器翻譯|机器翻译)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
translation (translated version of a text)
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
(old) to translate / to interpret / translator / interpreter
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
Emirate / Sheikdom / used as translation for country under a chief
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
to translate sth into action / to put sth into action
translated text
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇
chicken in rice wine / also translated drunken chicken
a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text
to translate and edit / translator-editor / (computing) to compile (source code)
diamond / (used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon) / guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)
translation (geometry)
Gospel of John (used in Catholic Bible translations)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繙* | 繙* | *繙
to translate
Sandhinir mokcana vyuha sutra, a yogic text on awareness and meditation, translated as the Wisdom of Buddha
meaning (of foreign expression) / translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯|直译) / paraphrase / free translation
to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation) / to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
to convert / conversion / (in accounting, referring to currency conversion) translation
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鈤* | 鈤* | *鈤
archaic translation of element germanium Ge32 鍺|锗
point-and-translate (computing)
loan translation / to calque
Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee
translated
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇
to introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written by translating it
to translate (to another language) / to convert
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
(computing) network address translation
(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism
(often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
source language (for translation)
to translate / to render foreign words / to transliterate
to correct (improve) a translation
quoted (from) / translation of selected passages
translated names / transliteration
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Chao Phraya Phra Klang (Royal Finance and External Affairs Minister), the honorary title of the 18th century official of the royal court of Thailand who translated 三國演義|三国演义 (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) into Thai
member of religious order / penitent / frater / translation of French agregé (holder of teaching certificate)
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
Moses (Catholic translation) / also 摩西 (Protestant translation)
target language (for translation)
The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰|迦叶摩腾 and Gobharana 竺法蘭|竺法兰 (Dharmaraksha)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腩* | 腩* | *腩
brisket / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / see 牛腩 esp. Cantonese / erroneously translated as sirloin
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
Chinese translation of "kung flu", a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a "Chinese" disease
line by line (translation, scanning etc) / progressive


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