音(yīn)

HSK 29 strokes

sound

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Character information

Pinyin
yīn
Meaning
sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 2
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 音 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿱立日

A tongue 立 forming a sound in the mouth 日

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

立lì日rì

Parts are arranged top to bottom.

How to write 音 step by step

9 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 音

Common words using 音 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

kǒu口yīn音
HSK 7-9

(linguistics) oral speech sounds

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zào噪yīn音
HSK 7-9

rumble

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sān三yīn音

third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)

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chuàn串yīn音

crosstalk; to overhear

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zhǔ主yīn音

keynote; principal tone; tonic; vowel

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yī一chuí槌dìng定yīn音

variant of 一锤定音

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yī一chuí锤dìng定yīn音

lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow

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wǔ五yīn音

five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la

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Related characters

More HSK 2 characters

万且业为主举久乐

From 音’s common words

口噪三串主一槌定

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