重譯

Chinese

		heavy; serious; to double heavy; serious; to double; to repeat; repetition; iteration; again; a layer	to translate; to interpret
trad. (重譯)		重	譯
simp. (重译)		重	译

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóngyì

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴ jik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chóngyì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chóngyì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻung²-i⁴
    • Yale: chúng-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chorngyih
    • Palladius: чунъи (čunʺi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cung⁴ jik⁶
    • Yale: chùhng yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴ jik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cung⁴ yig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ jɪk̚²/

Verb

重譯

1. to retranslate; to translate a translation

   • 萬里來從瘴癘鄕，遠憑重譯謁君王。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 1597, poem by Yi Sugwang to Phùng Khắc Khoan

     Malli rae jong jangnyeo hyang, won bing jung'yeok al gunwang. [Sino-Korean]

     You have come ten thousand leagues from your miasmic homeland, paying respect from afar to the sovereign by translations of translations.

2. to retranslate; to translate anew

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (重譯):

• → Japanese: 重訳(じゅうやく) (jūyaku)
• → Korean: 중역(重譯) (jung'yeok)

Korean

Hanja in this term
重	譯

Noun

重譯 • (jung'yeok) (hangeul 중역)

1. Hanja form^? of 중역 (“retranslation”).