Douyin

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 抖音 (dǒuyīn, literally “shaking sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.jɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.jɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Hyphenation: Dou‧yin

Proper noun

Douyin

1. The version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in mainland China.
   • 2019, Xing Lu, Zhicong Lu, “Fifteen Seconds of Fame: A Qualitative Study of Douyin, A Short Video Sharing Mobile Application in China”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Design, Human Behavior and Analytics; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 11578), Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 233–234:

     Douyin’s influence has even extended offline, as many users identify themselves as Douyiner (“抖音人”) and socialize with each other using jargons in real life.

   • 2019 October 8, Tian Lu, “Beijing Internet Court: whether a short video is original or not has nothing to do with its length”, in IPKat‎^[1], archived from the original on 2019-10-08:

     In May 2018, ‘Black Face V’, a popular ‘Douyiner’ with 26.37 million followers, posted a 13-second video entitled ‘I want to tell you’ on Douyin, in which the watermarks of ‘Douyin’ and ‘ID: 145651081’ were embedded.

   • 2020, Aliaksandra Shutsko, “User-Generated Short Video Content in Social Media. A Case Study of TikTok”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12195), Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 66:

     We found that between the two groups, they had no significant difference in their perceptions of relevance of the recommended videos on Douyin, perceptions of the variety of content recommended by Douyin, perceptions of the relevance of content providers of the recommended videos, and confidence in Douyin's respect for their privacy.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Douyin.

Derived terms

• Douyiner

See also

• TikTok