音譯 yīn yì

DEFINITIONS

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

CHARACTERS

音 yīn sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
譯 yì translate; decode; encode