APP

See also: app, App, and app.

Translingual

Proper noun

APP

Abbreviation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

English

Etymology 1

Noun

APP (plural APPs)

(nonstandard, common in China) Alternative form of app.
- 2014, “World Cup to live on APP in China”, in Xinhua‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 July 2014:
  World Cup to live on APP in China
  China'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.
- 2017, Renée Salmonsen, “The Dalai Lama launches free APP”, in Taiwan News‎^[2]:
  The Dalai Lama launches free APP
- 2018, “China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry”, in Xinhua‎^[3]:
  China to foster 300,000 industrial Internet APPs by 2020, ministry
  China’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.

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

APP (countable and uncountable, plural APPs)

(countable, biochemistry, immunology) Initialism of acute-phase protein.
(countable, biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of amyloid precursor protein.
(uncountable) Initialism of ammonium polyphosphate.
(finance) Initialism of authorized push payment.

Anagrams

pap, PPA, Pap, PAP

Chinese

Alternative forms

app

Etymology

Borrowed from English app.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ēipīpī

(Zhuyin): ㄟㄆㄧㄆㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ei¹ pi¹ pi¹ / ep¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ei-phi-phi

(Teochew, Peng'im): êi¹ pi¹ pi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: APP
  - Zhuyin: ㄟㄆㄧㄆㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: eipipi
  - Wade–Giles: ei¹-pʻi¹-pʻi¹
  - Yale: ēi-pī-pī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eipipi
  - Palladius: эйпипи (ejpipi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀeɪ̯⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ei¹ pi¹ pi¹ / ep¹
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ei¹ pi¹ pi¹ / ep⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: éi¹ pi¹ pi¹ / éb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ei̯⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵ pʰiː⁵⁵/, /ɛːp̚⁵/

Note:

ei1 pi1 pi1 - Mainland;
ep1 - chiefly Hong Kong.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ei-phi-phi
  - Tâi-lô: ei-phi-phi
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /ei⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ei⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴ pʰi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: êi¹ pi¹ pi¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ei phi phi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ei³³ pʰi³³ pʰi³³/

In mainland China and Taiwan, it is more often pronounced ēipīpī (letter by letter, A-P-P). Some speakers may pronounce it like English app (IPA^(key): /æp/).

Noun

APP

(computing, mobile telephony) app (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 款 m; 隻／只 c)
Synonym: 應用 / 应用 (yìngyòng)
- 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？ [MSC, trad.]
  以前你是不是也为了找个APP来提醒你，而四处下载，还浪费不少冤枉钱？ [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2011, 許明元, iPhone 4S無禁忌活用術 X iOS 5升級即戰力, page 60
  Yǐqián nǐ shìbùshì yě wèi le zhǎo ge APP lái tíxǐng nǐ, ér sìchù xiàzǎi, hái làngfèi bùshào yuānwǎngqián? [Pinyin]
  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?
- 那些APP好用的祕密 [MSC, trad.]
  那些APP好用的秘密 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2013, 彭其捷 and 楊淑涵, 那些APP好用的祕密, title
  nàxiē APP hǎo yòng de bìmì [Pinyin]
  the useful secrets of those apps
- 還打造了四十多個APP [MSC, trad.]
  还打造了四十多个APP [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2016, 魏巍, Swift自學力！, page v
  hái dǎzào le sìshí duō ge APP [Pinyin]
  and also developed more than forty apps
- 當然，新增的APP中，是不會有資料的。 [MSC, trad.]
  当然，新增的APP中，是不会有资料的。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2018, 申潤五, 實戰Firebase: APP開發者的最佳雲端服務平台, page 216
  Dāngrán, xīnzēng de APP zhōng, shì bùhuì yǒu zīliào de. [Pinyin]
  There would of course be no data in newly-added apps.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:APP.

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.