Romanize (Verb)
Meaning
Write in the Latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- They romanize Chinese characters into pinyin so that non-native speakers can read and pronounce them more easily.
- Many companies romanize their brand names to make them sound more familiar to Western customers.
- The city's street signs are now romanized to help tourists find their way around the area more easily.
- Historians romanize ancient Greek text so that modern readers can study it more easily.
- People romanize Japanese names and words so that they can be typed on a standard keyboard.