Douyin
Syllables: Dou·yinUK/ˈdəʊ.jɪn//ˈdoʊ.jɪn/
Douyin proper noun: the version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in mainland China.
Proper noun
Douyin
- The version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in mainland China.
- 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, 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...
- 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.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, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2019
Origin of Douyin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 抖音 (dǒuyīn, literally “shaking sound”).
Words formed from Douyin
Words that rhyme with Douyin
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- chin
- Flynn
- bin
- Quinn
- sin
- tin
- Bryn
- corinne
- inn
- din
- Finn
- grin
- kin
- lin
- linn
- unpin
- Benin
- min
- shin
- violin
- wherein
- within
- akin
- been
- begin
- brin
- chin-chin
- hin
- lyn
- mandolin
- whin
- zoom in
- agin
- agrin
- Arabian jasmine
- blin
- djinn
- edge in
- gimme some skin
- glyn
- herein
- jinn
- Karin
- kissing kin
- lecithin
- Nguyen
- nin
Questions about Douyin
- What does Douyin mean?
- Douyin means the version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in mainland China.
- What part of speech is Douyin?
- Douyin is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Douyin?
- Douyin is pronounced /ˈdəʊ.jɪn/ (UK).
Words near Douyin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Douyin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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