yīn

sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation

HSK 3 #540

DEFINITIONS

音 yīn
  • sound
  • noise
  • note (of musical scale)
  • tone
  • news
  • syllable
  • reading (phonetic value of a character)

STROKES

WORDS

质 yīn zhì tone; sound quality; timbre
箱 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box; speaker (audio equipment); resonating chamber of a musical instrument; sound box
dú yīn pronunciation; literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
书 fú yīn shū gospel
信 yīn xìn message
bí yīn nasal sound
阶 yīn jiē musical scale
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)
男高 nán gāo yīn tenor
高 yīn gāo pitch (music); tone
chàn yīn vibrato (of stringed instrument); trill (in phonetics)
yǐng yīn recorded media (CD and DVD); sound and movies
xiāo yīn to silence
zhī yīn intimate friend; soul mate
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]
杳无信 yǎo wú yīn xìn to have no news whatever
guān yīn Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
huà yīn one's speaking voice; tone; implication
译 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
观世 guān shì yīn Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
波 yīn bō sound wave
máng yīn busy signal (telephony)
fǔ yīn consonant
带 yīn dài audio tape
一锤定 yī chuí dìng yīn lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow; fig. to make the final decision