translate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

睪 sound component

  Sound component

  

spy on

Evolution

譯 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
譯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
譯 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
譯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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translate; decode; encode; to translate; to interpret

Most common words with 譯
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

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lAk

yek

interpret


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.7871% of movies

2747th most common character in movies

1198th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B6F

Shuowen

“譯,傳譯四夷之言者。从言,睪聲。”


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