Chinese word

抄袭

Pronunciation

Pinyinchāo xí

Meaning

  • verbplagiarize

Example

学生不要在作业里抄袭别人的答案。xué shēng bú yào zài zuò yè lǐ chāo xí bié rén de dá àn

Students should not plagiarize other people's answers in their assignments.

Illustration for 抄袭 (plagiarize)

More examples

在开源项目中，某些开发者被指控抄袭代码。zài kāi yuán xiàng mù zhōng mǒu xiē kāi fā zhě bèi zhǐ kòng chāo xí dài mǎ

In an open-source project, some developers were accused of plagiarizing code.

Core concept

Another person's words or ideas are absorbed into a new work while the new work is presented as original.

Common phrases

  • 抄袭学术论文chāo xí xué shù lùn wén

    plagiarize scholarly papers

  • 抄袭他人的研究chāo xí tā rén de yán jiū

    plagiarize other people's research

  • 抄袭代码chāo xí dài mǎ

    plagiarize computer code

Similar words

剽窃piāo qiè: Taking another person's written or research material and passing it off as one's own.
盗用dào yòng: Appropriating another person's ideas or results without permission for one's own use.
借鉴jiè jiàn: Drawing on another person's experience or ideas to develop one's own work or thinking.

Definition in Chinese

未经授权，将他人的文字、想法或答案部分或全部照搬并宣称为自己创作的行为。wèi jīng shòu quán jiāng tā rén de wén zì xiáng fǎ huò dá àn bù fèn huò quán bù zhào bān bìng xuān chēng wèi zì jǐ chuàng zuò de xíng wéi

Word origin

抄袭 (chāoxí, "plagiarize") first referred to attacking from the side or rear, and its sense developed into taking another person's words or ideas as one's own.

Usage tips

  • The word can apply even when only a passage, idea, design, or answer is taken, so the amount copied does not by itself make the charge disappear.

Opposites

Related words

  • 抄袭检测chāo xí jiǎn cèplagiarism checknoun
  • 抄袭案chāo xí ànplagiarism incidentnoun

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