yīn

音 (yīn) is a Chinese word meaning “sound; noise; note (of musical scale)”.

Meanings

  1. 1sound
  2. 2noise
  3. 3note (of musical scale)
  4. 4tone
  5. 5news
  6. 6syllable
  7. 7reading (phonetic value of a character)

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