Dictionaries › Chinese

certify

Pronunciation: /sœː⁵⁵ tʰiː²¹ faːi̯²¹/

“certify” is a Chinese word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to pronounce dead; to attest, to declare one's death (by a doctor); to be attested, to be declared dead (by a doctor).
  2. declare the death or decline of someone or something

Etymology

Ellipsis of English certified dead. Compare the usage of English pronounce in the sense of “to pronounce dead”.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “certify” there

More Chinese words

About this dictionary

The Chinese dictionary on Glottosphere has 147,621 entries with a page. Browse the Chinese dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.