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APP
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app App app.
Translingual
Proper noun
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
en nonstandard common in _ China en app.
en World Cup to live on APP in China 2014 Xinhua https://en.kunming.cn/index/content/2014-06/11/content_3586383.htm 26 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20140704043423/http://en.kunming.cn/index/content/2014-06/11/content_3586383.htm 4 July 2014 World Cup to live on APP in ChinaChina'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.
en The Dalai Lama launches free APP 2017 Taiwan News Renée Salmonsen https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3321171 The Dalai Lama launches free APP https://web.archive.org/web/20230827082947/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3321171 27 August 2023
en China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry Xinhua 2018 http://en.silkroad.news.cn/2018/0515/96217.shtml China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministryChina’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. https://web.archive.org/web/20261012093357/https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/96217.html 12 October 2026
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
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en countable biochemistry immunology en acute-phase protein.
en countable biochemistry medicine en amyloid precursor protein.
en uncountable en ammonium polyphosphate.
en finance en authorized push payment.
Anagrams
en app pap PPA Pap PAP
Chinese
Alternative forms
zh app
Etymology
Borrowed from zh en app.
Pronunciation
ēipīpī,py=APP ei1 pi1 pi1,ep1 ei1 pi1 pi1 - Mainland; ep1 - chiefly Hong Kong tw:ei#-phi#-phi êi1# pi1# pi1 n
In mainland China and Taiwan, it is more often pronounced ēipīpī (letter by letter, A-P-P). Some speakers may pronounce it like English en app (zh /æp/).
Noun
zh noun
zh computing mobile phones app m,c:個 m:款 c:隻
zh 應用
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? 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? 2011, zh 許明元, zh iPhone 4S無禁忌活用術 X iOS 5升級即戰力, page 60
那些 APP 好 用 的 祕密 the useful secrets of those apps 2013, zh 彭其捷 and zh 楊淑涵, zh 那些APP好用的祕密, title
還 打造 了 四十 多 個 APP and also developed more than forty apps 2016, zh 魏巍, zh Swift自學力!, page v
當然,新增 的 APP 中,是 不會 有 資料 的。 There would of course be no data in newly-added apps. 2018, zh 申潤五, zh 實戰Firebase: APP開發者的最佳雲端服務平台, page 216
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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.