音意合譯

1. • formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋 bīngqílín, 朗姆酒 lǎngmǔjiǔ, 奶昔 nǎixī and 米老鼠 mǐlǎoshǔ)

Character by character

• 音(yīn)sound
• 意(yì)idea
• 合(hé)close
• 譯(yì)translate