MP4
English
Noun
MP4 (plural MP4s)
- (file format) Abbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
- 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2022:
- Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.
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Translations
short for MPEG-4 Part 14
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Chinese
Etymology
Partial calque of English MP4. From English MP4 + 四 (sì, “four”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: áimu-pì-sì
- Zhuyin: ㄞˊ ˙ㄇㄨ ㄆㄧˋ ㄙˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: áimůpìsìh
- Wade–Giles: ai2-mu5-pʻi4-ssŭ4
- Yale: ái-mu-pì-sz̀
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: air.mupihsyh
- Palladius: аймуписы (ajmupisy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀaɪ̯³⁵ mu³ pʰi⁵¹⁻⁵³ sz̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: em1 pi1 sei3 / em1 pi1 fo1
- Cantonese Pinyin: em1 pi1 sei3 / em1 pi1 fo1
- Guangdong Romanization: ém1 pi1 séi3 / ém1 pi1 fo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɛːm⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ sei̯³³/, /ɛːm⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ fɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
MP4
Related terms
- MP3 (áimu-pì-sān)