APP
Translingual
Proper noun
APP
- abbreviation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
English
Etymology 1
Noun
APP (plural APPs)
- (nonstandard, common in China) Alternative form of app.
- 2014, “World Cup to live on APP in China”, in Xinhua[1], archived from the original on 4 July 2014:
- World Cup to live on APP in China
China's Central Television, jointly with the digital firm of Ali Cloud, Tuesday released the unique APP product that is authorized to broadcast the World Cup live. Besides TV and web, APP on mobile devices has become the 3rd platform to watch the tournament live.
- 2017, Renée Salmonsen, “The Dalai Lama launches free APP”, in Taiwan News[2]:
- The Dalai Lama launches free APP
- 2018, “China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry”, in Xinhua[3]:
- China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently released a plan to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs for specific industries and specific scenarios by 2020, meeting key demands in the key links of the manufacturing industry, including R&D and design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance and operations management.
Usage notes
This abbreviation is commonly code-mixed into the various Chinese languages spoken in Mainland China and nearby regions, where it is not pronounced as a single syllable but is instead pronounced letter by letter (/eɪ-pi-pi/) in the manner that acronyms are normally read in English, as is typical of short English words code-mixed into Chinese.
Etymology 2
Abbreviation.
Noun
APP (countable and uncountable, plural APPs)
- (countable, biochemistry, immunology) Initialism of acute-phase protein.
- (countable, biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of amyloid precursor protein.
- (uncountable) Initialism of ammonium polyphosphate.
- (finance) Initialism of authorized push payment.
Anagrams
Chinese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ei1 pi1 pi1 / ep1
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: APP
- Zhuyin: ㄟ ㄆㄧ ㄆㄧ
- Tongyong Pinyin: eipipi
- Wade–Giles: ei1-pʻi1-pʻi1
- Yale: ēi-pī-pī
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eipipi
- Palladius: эйпипи (ejpipi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀeɪ̯⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ei1 pi1 pi1 / ep1
- Cantonese Pinyin: ei1 pi1 pi1 / ep7
- Guangdong Romanization: éi1 pi1 pi1 / éb1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ei̯⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵/, /ɛːp̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- ei1 pi1 pi1 - Mainland;
- ep1 - chiefly Hong Kong.
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ei-phi-phi
- Tâi-lô: ei-phi-phi
- IPA (Taipei): /ei⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ei⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: êi1 pi1 pi1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ei phi phi
- Sinological IPA (key): /ei³³ pʰi³³ pʰi³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
In mainland China and Taiwan, it is more often pronounced ēipīpī (letter by letter, A-P-P). Some speakers may pronounce it like English app (IPA(key): /æp/).
Noun
APP
- (computing, mobile telephony) app (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 款 m; 隻／只 c)
- 以前你是不是也為了找個APP來提醒你，而四處下載，還浪費不少冤枉錢？ [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2011, 許明元, iPhone 4S無禁忌活用術 X iOS 5升級即戰力, page 60
- Yǐqián nǐ shìbùshì yě wèi le zhǎo ge APP lái tíxǐng nǐ, ér sìchù xiàzǎi, hái làngfèi bùshào yuānwǎngqián? [Pinyin]
- Before, were you looking for an app that would give you reminders, and were you downloading all sorts of apps and wasting a lot of money for no good reason?
以前你是不是也为了找个APP来提醒你，而四处下载，还浪费不少冤枉钱？ [MSC, simp.]- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:APP.
Usage notes
Chinese language users often consider 'APP' and other phrases which are written only in letters from the Roman alphabet and not rendered into Chinese characters to be English language words rather than loan words.