"app" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
应用應用	yìng yòng	v., adj.	to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
专车專車	zhuān chē		special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app
朋友圈	péng you quān		Moments (social networking function of smartphone app WeChat 微信[Wei1 xin4])
快手	kuài shǒu		Kuaishou, Chinese social video sharing app	syn
杀手级应用殺手級應用	shā shǒu jí yìng yòng		killer application / killer app
历史版本歷史版本	lì shǐ bǎn běn		historical version / a previous version (of an app, document etc)
角标角標	jiǎo biāo		subscript or superscript / corner label (on a product, image, document etc) / app icon badge (symbol on the upper-right corner an app icon, such as a red circle to indicate unread messages)
载具載具	zài jù		conveyance (car, boat, aircraft etc) / vehicle / (fig.) medium / platform / vector / (Tw) (Taiwan pr. [zai3 ju4]) a consumer's device (smart card or mobile app barcode etc) that can be scanned at checkout to save the receipt 統一發票\|统一发票[tong3 yi1 fa1 piao4] to a cloud account
抖音	dǒu yīn		Douyin, Chinese app for creating and sharing short videos, released in its international version as TikTok
陌陌	mò mò		Momo, GPS-based app for messaging, and potentially meeting up with, other Momo users (typically, strangers) in one's vicinity, launched in 2011
今日头条今日頭條	jīn rì tóu tiáo		Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app
美颜相机美顏相機	měi yán xiàng jī		BeautyCam, a smartphone app for retouching selfies (abbr. to 美顏\|美颜[Mei3 yan2])
学习强国學習強國	xué xí qiáng guó		Xuexi Qiangguo, PRC app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought, released in 2019
侧载側載	cè zài		to sideload (an app etc)
剪映	jiǎn yìng		CapCut, a short-form video editing app developed by ByteDance 字節跳動\|字节跳动[Zi4jie2 Tiao4dong4]
自启自啟	zì qǐ		(of a machine, app etc) to start on its own / to autostart

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