{"id":31,"date":"2010-08-01T23:09:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-11-02T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T08:42:58","slug":"file-size-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/file-size-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"File Size Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only realised just the other day that I\u2019m not altogether familar with file size vocabulary  in Chinese. I needn\u2019t have been too worried though since it turns out  in everyday conversation most Mandarin native speakers simply refer to  the various file sizes in their English, abbreviated forms (KB for  kilobyte, MB for megabyte, etc). These forms, I am told, are pronounced  more or less as they are in English.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>A list of file sizes and their corresponding Chinese translations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>bit: <\/strong>\u4f4d w\u00e8i\uff0c\u6bd4\u7279 b\u01d0t\u00e8\uff0c\u4f4d\u5143 w\u00e8iyu\u00e1n<\/li>\n<li><strong>byte:<\/strong> B\uff0c\u5b57\u8282 z\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>kilobyte:<\/strong> KB\uff0c\u5343\u5b57\u8282 qi\u0101nz\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>megabyte:<\/strong> MB\uff0c\u5146\u5b57\u8282 zh\u00e0oz\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>gigabyte:<\/strong> GB\uff0c\u5343\u5146\u5b57\u8282 qi\u0101nzh\u00e0oz\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>terabyte:<\/strong> TB\uff0c\u592a\u5b57\u8282 t\u00e0iz\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<li><strong>petabyte: <\/strong>PB\uff0c\u62cd\u5b83\u5b57\u8282 p\u0101it\u0101z\u00ecji\u00e9\uff0c\u62cd\u5b57\u8282 p\u0101iz\u00ecji\u00e9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst  the abbreviated forms are commonly understood by most people,  interestingly the ones in Chinese characters are not. They are formal,  almost technical, in register, though there is a certain logic to them  that makes them easy to understand in written texts, the exception  perhaps being \u4f4d w\u00e8i (its derivation eludes me, I hope someone can  enlighten me in the comments). The other translations are obvious  transliterations, e.g. \u6bd4\u7279 b\u01d0t\u00e8, \u592a- t\u00e0i- and \u62cd\u5b83- p\u0101it\u0101- standing in for  English\u2019s \u201cbit\u201d, \u201ctera-\u201d and \u201cpeta-\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n<p>There  are of course many other complicated file sizes, but this list presents  the ones most commonly used (admittedly, though, \u201cpetabyte\u201d \u2013 equal to  one quadrillion bytes \u2013 is pushing it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only realised just the other day that I\u2019m not altogether familar with file size vocabulary in Chinese. I needn\u2019t have been too worried though since it turns out in everyday conversation most Mandarin native speakers simply refer to the various file sizes in their English, abbreviated forms (KB for kilobyte, MB for megabyte, etc). 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