形jing4譯jik6

simp形译

jing4 jik6xíng yì

English

derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese

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