(yīn)

Sound; tone; music

How 音 is written

Strokes
9
Traditional
Simplified
(unchanged)

Common words using 音

聲音 shēngyīn
voice; sound; CL:個|个[ge4]
語音 yǔyīn
voice
音樂 yīnyuè
music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
五音不全 wǔyīnbùquán
tone deaf; unable to sing in tune
低音 dīyīn
bass
口音 kǒuyīn
oral speech sounds (linguistics)
嗓音 sǎngyīn
voice
噪音 zàoyīn
rumble; noise; static (in a signal)
回音 huíyīn
echo; reply; turn (ornament in music)
定音 dìngyīn
to call the tune; to make the final decision
影音 yǐngyīn
recorded media (CD and DVD); sound and movies
拼音 pīnyīn
phonetic writing; pinyin (Chinese romanization)

音 in a sentence

她很喜歡聽音樂。

Tā hěn xǐhuān tīng yīnyuè.

“She loves listening to music.”

How common is 音?

音 is the 540th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 77.4% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 音

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