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音
yīn
1. sound
2. noise
3. note (of musical scale)
4. tone
5. news
6. syllable
7. reading (phonetic value of a character)
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

音
yīn
sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
HSK 3 9 丶

Compound Words (20)

三音
sānyīn
third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)
串音
chuànyīn
crosstalk
主音
zhǔyīn
keynote
五音
wǔyīn
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
今音
jīnyīn
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
低音
dīyīn
bass
修音
xiūyīn
voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
假音
jiǎyīn
falsetto, same as [[假聲|假声]]
元音
yuányīn
vowel
全音
quányīn
whole tone (musical interval)
八音
bāyīn
music
切音
qièyīn
to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
半音
bànyīn
semitone
口音
kǒuyīn
oral speech sounds (linguistics)
HSK 6
口音
kǒuyin
voice
HSK 6
古音
gǔyīn
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
同音
tóngyīn
unison
吸音
xīyīn
sound-absorbing
和音
héyīn
harmony (pleasing combination of sounds)
唇音
chúnyīn
labial consonant

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
539
Word Frequency Rank
327 of 84,292
Radical Number
180

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