(yīn) - sound; tone; pronunciation (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yīnTraditional: 音
Translation
sound; tone; pronunciation (bound morpheme)
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Word origin
An ideographic character derived from 言 (speech) with an added stroke in the mouth, marking the sound that issues from speech, hence sound, tone or pronunciation.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 言 (speech) with an added stroke marking sound
Stroke order
音
Examples
。
Her voice is lovely.
。
I like listening to music.
。
Please turn the music down a bit.
调。
Please turn the sound down a little.
音 (yīn) is a bound morpheme for sound, tone and pronunciation, found in 声音 (shēng yīn) "voice, sound" and 音乐 (yīn yuè) "music".
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 音.
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