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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)

波音
Bōyīn
Boeing
福音
fúyīn
good news
方音
fāngyīn
dialectal accent
泛音
fànyīn
overtone
清音
qīngyīn
unvoiced consonant
知音
zhīyīn
intimate friend
拟音
nǐyīn
to make a sound effect
放音
fàngyīn
playback (of recorded sound)
乐音
yuèyīn
musical note
母音
mǔyīn
vowel
波音
bōyīn
mordent (music)
混音
hùnyīn
(audio) mixing
浊音
zhuóyīn
voiced consonant (English z or v, as opposed to unvoiced s or f)
发音
fāyīn
to pronounce
拼音
pīnyīn
phonetic writing
HSK 5
擦音
cāyīn
fricative
串音
chuànyīn
crosstalk
扩音
kuòyīn
to amplify (sound)
回音
huíyīn
echo
根音
gēnyīn
root of chord

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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