"这个词典应用很好。"

Translation: This dictionary app is good.

[Jieke694731]

I thought Chinese us the letters APP

[alanxoc3]

Pleco is good :).

[Winston298006]

I never hear or see mainland Chinese say 应用。It's either 软件 or [the annoying] "A-P-P," which people must have thought stood for three words.

[hippietrail]

Mandarin speakers can't pronounce hard consonants at the end of syllables. (Though many other Chinese languages/dialects do have final consonants besides n, and ng.) Mandarin also doesn't have the short a sound. Younger Chinese who've studied English don't seem to have this problem but use the same pronunciation as everyone else. All the English abbreviations and acronyms I've noticed in China avoid syllables ending in hard consonants. APP, DIY, KTV, CD, DVD...

[AndrewPfaff]

But the difference is app is a truncation and the rest of those examples are initialisms, which are read out identically as in English...

[hippietrail]

Sure but Chinese avoid adopting foreign words they can't pronounce in a Chinese way.

[prudenceye]

應用 doesn't mean app，app should be 應用程式

[JonathanLi116138]

What? App is app in chinese...

[hippietrail]

Not App but APP. It's pronounced as the names of the three letters, not as a single word as in English, and it's spelled to reflect that pronunciation.

[hugo565587]

pleco shi4 yi2 ge4 hen3 hao3 ying4 yong4 a

[ChanYanYan1]

App shd be 應用程式 in Chinese

[jim750574]

pleco