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音: sound; noise

By September 30, 2013January 28th, 2021Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

 

音 yīn

noun | radical 180
: tone; sound; noise; pitch

Kun Reading

音 | ね ne

noun| noun suffix
: sound; noise; report
: note (music)

音 | おと oto

noun| noun suffix
: sound; noise; report
: note (music)
: fame

音いろ | ねいろ neiro

noun| no-adjective
: tone color; tone quality; timbre
: synthesizer patch

On Reading

音 | おん on

noun| noun suffix
: sound; noise; report;
: note (music);
: Chinese-derived character reading

いん in

 Usage:
 

音樂 [乐] yin1yue4: music [音楽 onraku]

古典音樂 gu3 dian3 yin1yue4: classical music

音色 yin1se4: tone quality; timbre [ねいろ neiro]
音響 yin1xiang3: speakers; acoustics [おんきょう onkyou]
音像 yin1xiang4: audiovisual [おんぞう onzou]
音信 yin1xin4: message; correspondence [いんしん inshin]
聲[声]音 sheng1yin1: voice; sound [声音|せいおん seion]
錄[录]音 lu4yin1: sound recording [録音|ろくおん rokuon]
發[发]音 fa1yin1: to pronounce
語[语]音 yu3yin1: voice [ごおんgohn: sound of a word]
口音 kou3yin1: oral speech sounds (linguistics)
[こうおんkouon: oral consonant]
觀[观]世音 guan1 shi4 yin1: Goddess of Mercy
[観音 | かんぜおん kanzeon OR かんのん kanon]



Japanese | idiom
音姫 | おとひめ otohime: melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds
音楽 | おんがく ongaku: music
現代音楽 | げんだいおんがく gendai ongaku: modern music
古典音楽 | kotenongaku koten ongaku: classical music

*異口同音 |いくどうおん ikudouon
: with one voice; unanimously

Chinese idiom
*異口同音 yi4 kou3 tong2 yin1: (to speak) with one voice
[いくどうおん ikudouon: with one voice; unanimously]

 Etymology:
 
指事 Indicative.
Tongue 立 (li4: stand radical 117) sticking mouth of the
mouth 曰 (yue1: say radical 73).



Compare with 言 (yan2: speech radical 149).



“Sound” radical #180



 Examples:
 
中國好聲音滿好看的。
zhong1 guo2 hao3 sheng1 yin1 man3 hao3kan4 de
“The Voice” of China is quite good.

 

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary