yīn

Traditional: 音

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Translation

sound; tone; pronunciation (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 音

Examples

Her voice is lovely.

I like listening to music.

Please turn the music down a bit.

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".

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 音.

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This word is part of lesson 103.