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Definitions
- 1. sound
- 2. noise
- 3. note (of musical scale)
- 4. tone
- 5. news
- 6. syllable
- 7. reading (phonetic value of a character)
Example Sentences
1 shown麻煩將 音 響聲 音 轉小一點。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 音
sound duration
retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
soundproofing
background music (BGM)
polysyllabic word
alveolar
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
dieresis
phonetic change
classical music
Douyin, Chinese app for creating and sharing short videos, released in its international version as TikTok
phoneme
foot (syllabic unit in verse)
cassette tape
homonym
quaver
bisyllable
muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
(linguistics) elision
crash cymbal (drum kit component)
to call the tune
rumble
retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
soprano
musical box
voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
concert
The Voice of China, PRC reality talent show
sound effect
music academy
harmony (pleasing combination of sounds)
official state pronunciation
phonetic symbol
lateral consonant (phonetics)
country music (country & western music genre)
bass tuba
the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc
recorded media (CD and DVD)
international phonetic alphabet
audio and video
alveolar nasal
formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋[bīng qí lín], 朗姆酒[lǎng mǔ jiǔ], 奶昔[nǎi xī] and 米老鼠[mǐ lǎo shǔ])
phonetics
phonetic transcription
(phonetics) medial
voice (communications) channel
Han Suyin (1917-2012), Eurasian physician and author
names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
(phonetics) voiceless sound
diphthong
to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
music
phonetic value
polyphony
the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003
final sound of a syllable
to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
sound effects
child's voice
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
tuplet (music)
overtone (music)
speech recognition
pure tone
Gospel according to St Luke
aspirated consonant (in phonetics)
sound equipment
inverted turn (ornament in music)
vowel
(music) off-key; out of tune
tuning fork
Sanskrit-Chinese transliteration
one's speaking voice
voice
voice
audio file (computer)
Guanyin or Kuanyin township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[táo yuán xiàn], north Taiwan
speed of sound
ultrasound
vowel devoicing
to receive no news whatsoever about sb
character with two or more readings
heart murmur
palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
Chinese postal romanization, developed in the early 1900s, used until the 1980s
syllable
to record (sound)
apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)
modern music
audio tape
musical note
bassoon
sonorant
Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang
woofer
live recording
character with two or more readings
alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
syncopation
diphthong
third (musical interval)
China Audio-Video Copyright Association (CAVCA)
audio
light music
tone
alveolar trill (e.g. Russian r sound)
glissando
childlike voice
timpani
keynote
loudness
(linguistics) plosive; stop
diphthong (such as putonghua ɑi, ei etc)
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
whole tone (musical interval)
Gospel according to St Matthew
sound and video
decadent or obscene music
homophone; homonym
minim (music)
alphabetic stage
folk music
musical scale
pitch of voice (high or low)
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1
(phonetics) voiced sound
Gospel according to St Mark
diphthong
ride cymbal (drum kit component)
stereo system
highest true (non-falsetto) voice
pitch (music)
(linguistics) elision
good news
tone deaf
short-term phonological memory
prerecording
see 注音符號|注音符号[zhù yīn fú hào]
consonant
Central Conservatory of Music
monosyllabic
baritone
third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)
falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
acronym
Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)
bilabial consonant (b, p, or m)
dial tone
onset and rime
harmonic series
Music Television MTV
trance (music genre)
nasal sound
to silence
tenor part
Tieguanyin tea (a variety of oolong tea)
tenor
standard pronunciation
voice
sound producing object (soundboard, vibrating string, membrane etc)
megaphone
pronounceability
the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom)
to have no news whatever
tone deaf
high pitch
supersonic
radio
velar consonants of Middle Chinese
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
(music) natural note
Gospel according to St John
glottal stop
Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese
busy signal (telephony)
(deferential) your letter
pickup (electro-acoustic transducer)
voiced consonant (linguistics)
Voice of America (VOA)
loudspeaker box
prepalatal sound (linguistics)
boombox
heptatonic scale
organ stop (button activating a row of pipes)
sound and meaning
hi-fi system
intimate friend
velar sound (linguistics)
phonetic symbol
comfortable voice (well within one's range of pitch)
vocal organs
vibrato (of stringed instrument)
root of chord
vocal range
see 唇齒音|唇齿音[chún chǐ yīn]
subwoofer
triphthong (such as putonghua uei etc)
sound-absorbing
onset (linguistics)
phonetic transcription
noise
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
playback (of recorded sound)
tweeter
Gospel according to St John
fundamental tone
disyllabic word
(linguistics) voiced stop
vowel
accent (of a word)
jazz (loanword)
Gospel according to St Matthew
local accent
echo
voice mailbox
speech sounds
syllabic script
interval (music)
Boeing (aerospace company)
to make a sound effect
amplifier
Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
Bopomofo
(music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
bugle call
sonic boom
concert hall
conservatory
Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul
accented syllable
mistake of pronunciation
bass
Beijing pronunciation
alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
fifth (musical interval)
to tune (a musical instrument)
consonant
(tape) recording machine
sound card
message
crotchet (music)
ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)
(Chinese phonetics) erhua (the sound of the r-coloring of a syllable final)
musical theater
(music) bass voice
crosstalk
pocket stereo
electronic music (genre)
chest voice
standard pronunciation
pop music
complementary interval
loud pedal (on piano)
monosyllabic word
double bass
tremolo
phonetic value of a character
Warner Music Group
(music) arpeggio
phonetic letters
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
vowel harmony (in phonetics)
character having several readings and meanings
keypad tone
falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
alveolar sound (linguistics)
coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
sound and video
labiodental (e.g. the consonant f in standard Chinese)
(music) unison
Universal Music Group
tuning; temperament
labial consonant
upper register
sonic boom
gospel
tie (music)
rap music
phonetic
musicology
synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with similar accounts and chronology)
(audio) mixing
guttural sound
dubbing (filmmaking)
phonetic alphabet
guttural fricative
semitone
oral speech sounds (linguistics)
overtone
announcer
voice-over
to transmit
semitone
speech command (for computer speech recognition)
phoneme
tuplet (music)
local accent
fricative
soft pedal (on piano)
affricate (phonetics)
voice and features
alveolar fricative (linguistics)
The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)
to pronounce
quiet
Cantonese romanization
prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics)
velar nasal
to amplify (sound)
close vowel
ringback tone
Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
dominant (music)
retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains
(linguistics) velar consonant
phonological skill
tone
musician
subsyllabic unit
dental consonant
whole tone (musical interval)
vowel harmony (in phonetics of Altaic languages)
(ling) unstressed (syllable)
music
sound wave
Bhangra, Indian music (music genre)
VoIP (Voice over IP) (computing)
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
fricative (phonetics)
highest voice
lingering sound
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
silencer
pentatonic scale
(music) accidental (symbol such as a sharp (♯), flat (♭), natural (♮) etc)
assembled phonology
music festival
phonetic transcription
phonetic awareness
double bass; contrabass
lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow
pipe (of an organ)
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
message
Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
to receive a radio signal
pronunciation
phonetic aphasia
speech synthesis
sound
phonetic writing
sound of the heart
lowest voice
sound track
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
see 心臟雜音|心脏杂音[xīn zàng zá yīn]
beep
good news
a note on a musical scale
closed syllable
diphthong
reading or phonetic value of a character
voice signal
music CD
Bayan Mandahu, village in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia, noted for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils
letters
alveolar
backup vocal (music)
audio tape