翻訳
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What it means
翻訳 means translation: the process and product of turning written text from one language into another, preserving meaning and context for a target audience.
Main meanings
- Written-text translation: converting text from a source language into a target language.
- Translation as a professional service or field within linguistics and localization.
- In media and software contexts, translation includes subtitling, adaptation, and localization tasks.
How to use it
Used as a noun to denote the act or product of translating written texts; in formal writing it appears in scholarly articles, publishing, legal and technical documents; can pair with verbs and phrases describing translation work and automated translation.
Variants and close terms
- translation — honyaku
- yakushutsu (訳出) — yakushutsu
Composition
- 翻 — to turn over, flip
- 訳 — explanation, interpretation
- Together they mean the act of turning written text into another language, i.e., translation.
Etymology
翻 on'yomi ホン; 訳 on'yomi ヤク; honyaku is formed by combining the readings of two kanji to create the noun meaning translation.
Origin
Japanese translation practices trace back to classical times, notably with translations of Chinese literature; the modern sense and professional framework for translation developed with modernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Word class
noun (名詞)