translate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

𠬤 sound component

𠬤  Sound component

  

spy on

Evolution

译 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
译 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
译 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
译 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

translate; decode; encode; to translate; to interpret

Most common words with 译
Freq.
Word
Meaning

翻译

to translate

破译

to break a code

to translate

编译

to translate and edit

直译

literal translation