"音" • Chinese-English Dictionary

DICTIONARY OPTIONS
CHARACTERS : Simplified Traditional
PHONETIC : Pinyin Bopomofo EFEO Wade-Giles Yale
» Search by Radical
Trad.
Radical
Radical
(Bushou)

Radical 180
Composition
Strokes 9
Decomp. 立日
Prononciation
Mandarin yīn
Entry Methods
Pinyin yin1
Kanji /
Cangjie
YTA
卜廿日
Sijiao 60.1
Wubi UJF
CNS 11643 1-5376
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+97F3
GB2312 D2F4
BIG5 ADB5
 yīn sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)
Results beginning with 音
 yīn yuè music / CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
 yīn pín audio / sound / audio frequency / sound frequency
 yīn xiǎng sound / acoustics / audio / hi-fi system / stereo sound system / abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响[zu3 he2 yin1 xiang3]
 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box
 yīn xiàng audio and video / audiovisual
 yīn xiào sound effect
 yīn zhì tone / sound quality / timbre
 yīn liàng loudness / volume
 yīn fú (music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
 yīn sè tone / timbre / sound color
 yīn guǐ sound track / track number (e.g. on a CD)
 yīn diào pitch of voice (high or low) / pitch (of a musical note) / tone
 yīn xùn letters / mail / news / messages / correspondence
 yīn sù speed of sound
 yīn jié syllable
 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols
 yīn biāo phonetic symbol
 yīn lu:4 tuning / temperament / music
 yīn yù vocal range / register (music)
 yīn jiē musical scale
 yīn xìn message
 yīn yùn music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character / phoneme
 yīn bō sound wave
 yīn gāo pitch (music) / tone
 yīn dài audio tape
 yīn yì sound and meaning
 yīn róng voice and features / (sb's) appearance
 yīn chéng interval (music)
 yīn sù phoneme
 yīn chā tuning fork
 yīn wèi phoneme
 yīn bào sonic boom
 yīn biàn phonetic change
 yīn bù foot (syllabic unit in verse) / meter / scansion
 yīn cháng sound duration / length of a musical note
 yīn chī tone deaf
 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 / has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
 yīn guǎn pipe (of an organ)
 yīn hào message
 yīn jí a note on a musical scale
 yīn míng names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
 yīn shì sound and video
 yīn shuān organ stop (button activating a row of pipes)
 yīn zhí phonetic value
» MORE
 yīn yuè huì concert / CL:場|场[chang3]
 yīn shì pín sound and video
 yīn yuè jiā musician
 yīn yuè tīng concert hall / auditorium
 yīn yuè jié music festival
 yīn yùn xué Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
 yīn jié tǐ syllabic script
 Yīn Jí Xié China Audio-Video Copyright Association (CAVCA)
 yīn pín liú audio streaming
 yīn yuè xué musicology
 yīn yuè yuàn conservatory / music college
 yīn yuè xué yuàn music academy / conservatory
 yīn pín wén jiàn audio file (computer)
 Yīn yuè zhī shēng The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)
 yīn xiǎng shè bèi sound equipment / stereo
 yīn pín shè bèi sound card / audio card (computer)
 yīn jié wén zì syllabary
 yīn fú shí zhí note
 yīn xiǎng xiào guǒ sound effects
 yīn xiǎng yǐn xìn acoustically actuated fuse / acoustic fuse
 yīn xiǎng zǔ hé stereo system
 yīn yì hé yì formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋[bing1 qi2 lin2], 朗姆酒[lang3 mu3 jiu3], 奶昔[nai3 xi1] and 米老鼠[Mi3 Lao3 shu3])
 yīn yuè diàn shì Music Television MTV
 yīn yuè guāng dié music CD
]片  soundbite
 yīn xiàng shì wù kē Audio-Visual Services Section
 yīn xiǎng yǐn bào yǐn xìn acoustically actuated fuse / acoustic fuse
  Band Aid Trust
Approximate Results for 音
 shēng yīn voice / sound / CL:個|个[ge4]
 yǐng yīn recorded media (CD and DVD) / sound and movies
 yǔ yīn speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message
 lù yīn to record (sound) / sound recording / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zào yīn rumble / noise / static (in a signal)
 pīn yīn phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)
 fā yīn to pronounce / pronunciation / to emit sound
 Guān yīn Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
 huà yīn one's speaking voice / tone / implication
 sǎng yīn voice
 fú yīn good news / glad tidings / gospel
 pèi yīn dubbing (filmmaking)
 zhī yīn intimate friend / soul mate
 huí yīn echo / reply / turn (ornament in music)
 dī yīn bass
 bō yīn mordent (music)
 kǒu yin voice / accent
 kǒu yīn oral speech sounds (linguistics)
 gāo yīn high pitch / soprano / treble
 jìng yīn quiet / silent / mute
 hùn yīn (audio) mixing
 gé yīn soundproofing
 shōu yīn to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
 dú yīn pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
 zhù yīn to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號|注音符号[zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4])
 xié yīn homonym / homophone / harmonic (component of sound)
 zá yīn noise
 bō yīn to transmit / to broadcast
 jiā yīn good news
 qīng yīn (phonetics) voiceless sound
 yuè yīn musical note / tone
 xiāng yīn local accent / accent of one's native place
 wǔ yīn five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
 yú yīn lingering sound
 zhǔ yīn keynote / principal tone / tonic / vowel
 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic
 xiāo yīn to silence
 bí yīn nasal sound
 zhòng yīn accent (of a word) / stress (on a syllable)
 chàn yīn vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics)
 zì yīn phonetic value of a character
 yuán yīn vowel
 xī yīn sound-absorbing
 wěi yīn final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
 kuò yīn to amplify (sound)
 tiáo yīn to tune (a musical instrument)
 yì yīn phonetic transcription / transliteration
 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
 fǔ yīn consonant
 xīn yīn sound of the heart / heartbeat
 fàn yīn overtone / a harmonic
 zhèng yīn standard pronunciation / to correct sb's pronunciation
 chún yīn pure tone
 bàn yīn semitone
 shé yīn coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
 lián yīn tuplet (music) / sandhi (phonetics)
 huá yīn glissando
 zhuó yīn (phonetics) voiced sound / sonant
 duō yīn polyphony
 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
 mǔ yīn vowel
 jī yīn fundamental tone
 zhèn yīn tremolo
 bào yīn sonic boom
 biān yīn lateral consonant (phonetics)
 biǎo yīn phonetic / phonological / transliteration
 cā yīn fricative
齿 chǐ yīn dental consonant
 chuàn yīn crosstalk / to overhear
 chún yīn labial consonant
 diàn yīn electronic music (genre)
 dìng yīn to call the tune / to make the final decision
 Dǒu yīn Douyin, Chinese app for creating and sharing short videos, released in its international version as TikTok
 fàng yīn playback (of recorded sound)
 fāng yīn dialectal accent
 fēi yīn (ling) unstressed (syllable)
 gēn yīn root of chord
 guó yīn official state pronunciation
 gǔ yīn ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds
 hào yīn bugle call
 hé yīn harmony (pleasing combination of sounds)
 hé yīn backup vocal (music) / (phonetic) contraction
 jiǎ yīn falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
 jīn yīn modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
 máng yīn busy signal (telephony)
 nǎi yīn child's voice / childlike voice
 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
 pá yīn (music) arpeggio
 qiè yīn to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
 quán yīn whole tone (musical interval)
 sān yīn third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)
 sè yīn plosive / stop consonant
 shěng yīn (linguistics) elision
 shǒu yīn onset (linguistics)
 shǔ yīn dominant (music)
 tūn yīn (linguistics) elision
 tǔ yīn local accent
 xiǎng yīn sonorant
 xiōng yīn chest voice
 xiū yīn voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
 yá yīn velar consonants of Middle Chinese
 yín yīn alveolar sound (linguistics)
 yù yīn (deferential) your letter
 zǐ yīn consonant
 zǒu yīn off-key / out of tune (music)
» MORE
 shōu yīn jī radio / CL:臺|台[tai2]
 lù yīn jī (tape) recording machine / tape recorder / CL:臺|台[tai2]
 chāo yīn sù supersonic
 lù yīn dài audio tape / CL:盤|盘[pan2],盒[he2]
 Guān shì yīn Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
 qīng yīn yuè light music
 dī yīn pào subwoofer
 bō yīn yuán announcer / broadcaster
 tí shì yīn beep
 chāo yīn bō ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
 nán gāo yīn tenor
 kuò yīn qì megaphone / loudspeaker / amplifier / microphone
 nu:3 gāo yīn soprano
 huà wài yīn voice-over / background narration
 xiāo yīn qì silencer
 nán zhōng yīn baritone
 duō yīn zì character with two or more readings
 kuò yīn jī amplifier / loudspeaker / hearing aid
 tóng yīn zì Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
 nán dī yīn bass (music) / lower register male voice
 huí líng yīn ringback tone
 yǔ yīn xué phonetics
 dìng yīn gǔ timpani
  listening post
 àn jiàn yīn keypad tone / key tone
 bàn yīn chéng semitone
 bàn yuán yīn semivowel
 bā yīn hé musical box
 Běi jīng yīn Beijing pronunciation
 běn wèi yīn (music) natural note
 biàn huà yīn (music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
 biāo yīn fǎ phonetic transcription / system of representing spoken sounds
 biāo zhǔn yīn standard pronunciation / standard tone (e.g. A = 440 Hz)
 bì yīn jié closed syllable
 bì yuán yīn close vowel
 bō hào yīn dial tone
齿 chǐ chún yīn see 唇齒音|唇齿音[chun2 chi3 yin1]
齿 chǐ yín yīn alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
齿 chún chǐ yīn labiodental (e.g. the consonant f in standard Chinese)
 dān yīn cí monosyllabic word
 dān yīn jié monosyllabic / a monosyllable
 dié yīn bó ride cymbal (drum kit component)
 dī yīn guǎn bassoon / also written 巴頌管|巴颂管 / or 巴松管
 ér huà yīn (Chinese phonetics) erhua (the sound of the r-coloring of a syllable final)
 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
Chinese Tones