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Change log entry 67164
Processed by: richwarm (2019-02-23 22:14:22 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 63175 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
1. Of the three senses in the current entry, "transliterate" is only one that is both correct and commonly used -- it should go at the front.

2. /to transmit/to pass on written message/
This was written by Miles. I believe he got "transmit" from
http://www.zdic.net/c/c/164/364330.htm
But I think that's wrong or very rare.
Where he got the other bit is a mystery.
It doesn't correspond to zdic's Chinese def (常用于发表或传送更为无形的新闻条目的机构), and I can't find anything to support it.
It could be a guess based on (a) "转 means pass on" and (b) "写 means writing".
Or it could be an attempt to explain which sense of "transmit" is intended.

That zdic entry is weird, anyway: the Chinese definition seems to mean "a mechanism for publishing or conveying even less tangible news items".
What on earth does that refer to?
And the "example" sentence 打字机甚至已经成为把诗歌写在纸上的直接手段 doesn't even contain the word 转写! What's the point of it?
I suggest we dump the first two glosses of our def unless we can find some support for them. I can't.

3. /to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)/
J has "electrostatic transfer 静电转写", which sounds like the way a photocopier transfers an image to paper from its internal drum.
And (more reliably), GR has 转写术 [beaux arts] décalcomanie.
In English, that's decalcomania ("the process of transferring designs from prepared paper on to glass or porcelain").
Also, K has 转写 1. ... 2. to transfer (like with transfer paper)

Web ~ 彩色锅和玻璃杯的绢印图案,多由转写纸转印而成。
Line ~ 转写纸 transfer paper

4. /to transcribe/
- 观察和访谈大都有录音,其中大部分由研究者转写成文本,反复阅读、分析。
- 收集民间演述并进行初步转写之后,我们就将其存入档案库,但还并未电子化。
- 本文的语料是录音转写来的,转写符号借鉴了国外会话研究的成果。
- 所有电话交谈都将被录音并作全文转写。
- 在将大连方言影音录制结束后,专家将在今年内完成对声音的国际音标转写等工作,并在今年年底接受国家语委的验收。

Line ~
- 现附上采访转写文本的全文。 The full transcription of the interview is attached.
- 辩论过程和访谈过程都进行了录音便于转写和分析。 Both the debate session and the interview session were recorded for later transcription and analysis.
- 秘书用它来将信件录到磁带上,然后再转写。 Its used for recording letters onto magnetic tape for transcription by a secretary.
Diff:
- 轉寫 转写 [zhuan3 xie3] /to transmit/to pass on written message/to transliterate/
+ 轉寫 转写 [zhuan3 xie3] /to transliterate/to transcribe/to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)/
By MDBG 2025
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