MP4

English

Noun

MP4 (plural MP4s)

1. (file format) Abbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
   • 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2022:

     Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.

Derived terms

• MP4 player

Related terms

• MP3

Translations

short for MPEG-4 Part 14

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: MP4

• Finnish: MP4
• French: MP4 (fr)
• Greek: MP4 n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: エムピーフォー (emu-pī-fō), MP4 (ja) (MP4)
• Korean: 엠피포 (empipo), MP4
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: MP4 n
• Portuguese: MP4 (pt) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Chinese

Etymology

Partial calque of English MP4. From English MP4 + 四 (sì, “four”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áimu-pì-sì

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˊ ˙ㄇㄨ ㄆㄧˋ ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): em¹ pi¹ sei³ / em¹ pi¹ fo¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: áimu-pì-sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˊ ˙ㄇㄨ ㄆㄧˋ ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: áimůpìsìh
    • Wade–Giles: ai²-mu⁵-pʻi⁴-ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: ái-mu-pì-sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: air.mupihsyh
    • Palladius: аймуписы (ajmupisy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯³⁵ mu³ pʰi⁵¹⁻⁵³ sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: em¹ pi¹ sei³ / em¹ pi¹ fo¹
    • Cantonese Pinyin: em¹ pi¹ sei³ / em¹ pi¹ fo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ém¹ pi¹ séi³ / ém¹ pi¹ fo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛːm⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ sei̯³³/, /ɛːm⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ fɔː⁵⁵/

Noun

MP4

1. MP4
2. short for MP4播放器 (áimu-pì-sì bōfàngqì)

Related terms

• MP3 (áimu-pì-sān)