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Translingual
Stroke order
Han character
音 (Kangxi radical 180, 音 +0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日 (YTA ), four-corner 00601 , composition ⿱立 日 or ⿱亠 𣅑 )
Kangxi radical #180, ⾳ .
Shuowen Jiezi radical №58
Derived characters
Appendix:Chinese radical/音
偣 , 𠗥 , 喑 , 堷 , 㛺 , 𡺈 , 𢄈 , 愔 , 揞 , 摿 , 湆 , 𤟟 , 隌 , 暗 , 𪳀 , 𬇂 , 𤋾 , 腤 , 𥚱 , 𤭵 , 𪾲 , 𥏮 , 䅧 , 𥻚 , 𦂺 , 𦖢 , 諳 (谙 ), 䜾 , 𮛾 , 𨍑 , 䤃 , 𮢣 , 𩈴 , 𮧡 , 䬓 (𫗊 ), 𩩿 , 𬛯 , 𩹎 , 黯 , 𩆢 , 𥃛 , 𪛏
𪟠 , 𫦊 , 戠 , 𢻕 , 𢾑 , 𢾚 , 歆 , 𪵦 , 𫅬 , 𧡱 , 𧯹 , 𪱐 , 鶕 (𬸝 ), 𥃚 , 意 , 𡩘 , 𡺞 , 萻 , 窨 , 罯 , 𦋫 , 𩄒 , 𩮋 , 𪔧 , 𩇄 , 𫨏 , 𢉩 , 瘖 , 闇 (𬮴 ), 𧗹 , 𫭏
References
Kangxi Dictionary: page 1396 , character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43265
Dae Jaweon: page 1912, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4495, character 1
Unihan data for U+97F3
Chinese
Glyph origin
Old Chinese
諳
*qɯːm
腤
*qɯːm
嬜
*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑
*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞
*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌
*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯
*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗
*qɯːms
闇
*qɯːms
黯
*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆
*qʰrɯm
愔
*qɯm
韾
*qɯm
音
*qrɯm
瘖
*qrɯm
窨
*qrɯms
湆
*kʰrɯb
Ideogram (指事 ) : 言 (“word”) with something in 口 (“mouth”) written like 甘 – sound coming from the mouth. The vertical trait, that used to represent the body of the tongue, then disappeared as in 言, and 甘 was stylized as 曰 .
Pronunciation
Mandarin
(Standard )
(Pinyin ) : yīn (yin1 )
(Zhuyin ) : ㄧㄣ
(Chengdu , Sichuanese Pinyin ) : yin1
(Dungan , Cyrillic and Wiktionary ) : йин (yin, I)
Cantonese
(Guangzhou –Hong Kong , Jyutping ) : jam1
(Taishan , Wiktionary ) : yim1
Gan (Wiktionary ) : in1
Hakka
(Sixian , PFS ) : yîm
(Meixian , Guangdong ) : yim1
Jin (Wiktionary ) : ing2 / ing1
Northern Min (KCR ) : éng
Eastern Min (BUC ) : ĭng
Southern Min
(Hokkien , POJ ) : im
(Teochew , Peng'im ) : im1 / ing1
Wu (Northern , Wugniu ) : 1 in
Xiang (Changsha , Wiktionary ) : in1
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )
Character
音
Reading #
1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
yīn
Middle Chinese
‹ ʔim ›
Old Chinese
/*(r)əm/
English
sound, tone
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
音
Reading #
1/1
No.
15223
Phonetic component
音
Rime group
侵
Rime subdivision
1
Corresponding MC rime
音
Old Chinese
/*qrɯm/
Definitions
音
sound ; voice ; tone
音 障 ― yīn zhàng ― sound barrier
news ; tidings
( music ) pitch ; note (Classifier : 粒 c )
( phonetics ) pronunciation ; syllable
京音 ― jīngyīn ― Beijing pronunciation
潮音 ― cháoyīn ― Teochew pronunciation
中古音 ― zhōnggǔyīn ― Middle Chinese pronunciation
方音 ― fāngyīn ― dialectal pronunciation
陽江 音 / 阳江 音 ― Yángjiāng yīn ― Yangjiang pronunciation
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
聲音 (“voice; sound”)
Variety
Location
Words
Classical Chinese
聲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese )
聲音 , 聲響 , 響聲 , 響 , 聲 , 音 , 音聲 , 音響 acoustics
Northeastern Mandarin
Beijing
聲兒 , 聲音
Taiwan
聲音
Malaysia
聲音
Singapore
聲音
Jilu Mandarin
Jinan
聲音 , 聲兒
Central Plains Mandarin
Xi'an
聲音 , 聲
Xining
聲氣
Southwestern Mandarin
Chengdu
聲氣 , 聲音
Wuhan
聲氣 , 聲音
Jianghuai Mandarin
Yangzhou
聲音 , 聲
Hefei
聲音
Cantonese
Guangzhou
聲音 , 聲
Hong Kong
聲 , 聲音
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)
聲
Hong Kong (Ting Kok)
聲
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)
聲
Taishan
聲
Yangjiang
聲
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)
聲
Singapore (Guangfu)
聲
Gan
Nanchang
聲氣
Lichuan
聲
Pingxiang
聲
Hakka
Meixian
聲音 , 聲
Huiyang
聲
Dongguan (Qingxi)
聲
Heyuan (Bendihua)
聲
Wengyuan
聲音
Liannan
聲
Jiexi
聲
Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)
聲
Changting
聲氣
Wuping (Yanqian)
聲音
Ninghua
聲音
Ningdu
聲音
Shangyou (Shexi)
聲音
Tonggu (Sandu)
聲音
Ganzhou (Panlong)
聲音
Dayu
聲響
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
聲音 , 聲
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)
聲音 , 聲
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
聲音 , 聲
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
聲音 , 聲
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
聲音 , 聲
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
聲音
Hong Kong
聲音 , 聲
Yangxi (Tangkou)
聲
Yangchun (Sanjia)
聲音
Xinyi (Sihe)
聲
Xinyi (Qianpai)
聲
Gaozhou (Xindong)
聲
Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)
聲
Huazhou (Xin'an)
聲
Lianjiang (Shijiao)
聲 , 聲音
Lianjiang (Qingping)
聲
Mengshan (Xihe)
聲音
Luchuan
聲音
Senai (Huiyang)
聲
Huizhou
Jixi
聲音
Jin
Taiyuan
聲音 , 音聲
Northern Min
Jian'ou
聲音
Eastern Min
Fuzhou
聲音 , 聲
Southern Min
Xiamen
聲 , 聲說 voice
Quanzhou
聲 , 聲說 voice
Zhangzhou
聲 , 聲說 voice
Taipei
聲 GT , 聲說 GT, voice
Kaohsiung
聲
Yilan
聲
Changhua (Lukang)
聲
Taichung
聲
Taichung (Wuqi)
聲
Tainan
聲
Taitung
聲音
Hsinchu
聲
Penghu (Magong)
聲
Penang (Hokkien)
聲
Singapore (Hokkien)
聲
Manila (Hokkien)
聲
Chaozhou
聲
Shantou
聲
Jieyang
聲
Haifeng
聲說
Bangkok (Teochew)
聲
Johor Bahru (Teochew)
聲
Singapore (Teochew)
聲
Leizhou
聲
Zhongshan Min
Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)
聲
Wu
Shanghai
聲音
Shanghai (Chongming)
聲音
Suzhou
聲音 , 響聲
Ningbo
聲音 , 聲響
Wenzhou
聲音 , 聲響
Xiang
Changsha
聲音
Loudi
聲
Shuangfeng
聲音 , 聲響
Note
GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
音
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
sound
timbre
Short for 音楽 ( ongaku ) : music
speech ( phonetics )
Short for 字音 ( jion ) : Chinese -derived reading of a kanji
news , tidings
Readings
Go-on : おん ( on , Jōyō ) ←おん ( on , historical ) ←おむ ( omu , ancient )
Kan-on : いん ( in , Jōyō ) ←いん ( in , historical ) ←いむ ( imu , ancient )
Kun : おと ( oto , 音 , Jōyō ) 、と ( to , 音 ) 、ね ( ne , 音 , Jōyō ) 、たより ( tayo ri , 音り )
Nanori : お ( o ) 、とん ( ton ) 、なり ( nari ) 、ねね ( nene ) 、のん ( non ) 、ひびき ( hibiki ) 、りり ( riri )
Compounds
Etymology 1
*/ʔiəm/ → /əmʉ/ → /omʉ/ → /oɴ/
From Middle Chinese 音 (MC 'im ).
Pronunciation
Noun
音( おん ) • (on )
sound
( linguistics ) speech sound
Short for 音読み ( on'yomi ) : the Chinese -derived reading of a kanji
( by extension ) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime
Short for 音楽 ( ongaku ) : music
Derived terms
Etymology 2
⟨oto2 ⟩ → */otə/ → /oto/
From Old Japanese , from Proto-Japonic *ətə .
Appears in the late 1400s with the geminate pronunciation /otto/ .[ 5] This reading is very rare, and appears to have fallen out of use.
Pronunciation
( rare, obsolete )
Noun
音( おと ) or 音( おっと ) • (oto or otto )
a sound
音( おと ) を漏( も ) らすoto o morasuto let out a sound
音( おと ) を立( た ) て ずにoto o tatezu niwithout raising a sound → noise lessly; silently
when used with a "hear" verb, a rumor or fame ( Can we verify (+ ) this sense?)
news , tidings
a reply , response
Usage notes
Oto is used for loud sounds and voices, as opposed to the ne reading.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
⟨to2 ⟩ → */tə/ → /to/
The shift from oto , with the initial o being dropped.
The drop is likely due to haplology with the possessive particle の ( no ) .
Noun
音( と ) • (to )
sound ; echo ; voice
, text here
可是能( かぜの ) 等( と ) 能( の ) 登抱吉和伎母賀( とほきわぎもが ) 吉西斯伎奴( きせしきぬ ) 多母登乃久太利( たもとのくだり ) 麻欲比伎尓家利( まよひきにけり ) [Man'yōgana ] 風( かぜ ) の音( と ) の遠( とほ ) き我妹( わぎも ) が着( き ) せし衣( きぬ ) 手( た ) 本( もと ) のくだりまよひ来( き ) にけり [Modern spelling] kaze no to no tōki wagimo ga kiseshi-kinu tamoto no kudari, mayoi-ki ni keri My dear wife, far away (as the sound of the wind), some threads of the sleeves of the kimono you made me wear have come to be worn and chafed![ 7]
Derived terms
Etymology 4
⟨ne2 ⟩ → */nəɨ/ → /ne/
From Old Japanese . First attested in the Kojiki of 712, with the phonetic spelling 泥 .[ 8]
The original meaning appears to have been "a sound or cry, as made by an insect, bird, or beast".[ 8] The verb for making such a sound is 鳴く ( naku , “ to make a sound; to cry out ” ) , cognate with 泣く ( naku , “ to cry, to weep ” ) . It remains unclear if this noun ne ("sound") might be related to the verb naku ("to make a sound").
Pronunciation
Noun
音( ね ) • (ne )
a sound , voice
the cry of an animal
Usage notes
Ne is used for relatively soft sounds and voices that appeals to human emotions, as opposed to the oto reading.
Derived terms
Etymology 5
From Middle Chinese 音 (MC 'im ).
The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.
Pronunciation
Affix
音( いん ) • (in )
( uncommon ) Alternative form of 音 ( on )
sound
子( し ) 音( いん ) 、母( ぼ ) 音( いん ) ― shiin , boin ― (also shion, boon ) consonant; vowel
news ; tidings ; word
音( いん ) 信( しん ) ― in shin ― (also onshin ) message, news
References
^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914 ) 漢和大辞書 (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō : Kōbunsha, →DOI , page 2305 (paper), page 1204 (digital)
^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927 ), 新漢和辞典 (in Japanese), Ōsaka : Shōundō, →DOI , page 1353 (paper), page 689 (digital)
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira , editor (2006 ), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo : Sanseidō , →ISBN
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute , editor (1998 ), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo : NHK Publishing, Inc. , →ISBN
^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988 ) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō : Shogakukan , →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974 ), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo : Sanseidō
^ Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1964 ) The Makura-Kotoba of the Manyôśû , Leiden: Brill Archive, page 54
↑ 8.0 8.1 “音 ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo : Shogakukan , 2006
Korean
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium . Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)
Pronunciation
Hanja
Wikisource
音 (eumhun 소리 음 ( sori eum ) )
hanja form? of 음 ( “ sound ; news ” )
hanja form? of 음 ( “ speech ” )
hanja form? of 음 ( “ pronunciation ” )
訓 之對 文字 讀聲 (훈 지대 문자 독성, hunjidae munjadokseong ) the complement of the hun (hence) the sound reading a (Chinese) character.
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms
음훈 (音訓 , eumhun , “eumhun ”)
음독 (音讀 , eumdok , “strait or loud reading ”)
음성 (音聲 , eumseong , “voice ”)
음악 (音樂 , eumak , “music ”)
자음 (字音 , ja'eum , “pronunciation ”)
발음 (發音 , bareum , “pronunciation ”)
자음 (子音 , ja'eum , “consonant ”)
모음 (母音 , mo'eum , “vowel ”)
표음 (表音 , pyoeum , “phonetic representation ”)
Kunigami
Kanji
音
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
Etymology
From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto , from Proto-Japonic *ətə .
Pronunciation
Noun
音( ふと゚ぅー ) (futū )
sound
Okinawan
Kanji
音
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
Readings
Etymology
From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto , from Proto-Japonic *ətə .
Pronunciation
Noun
音( うとぅ ) (utu )
sound
Old Korean
Phonogram
音 (*-m )
A consonantal phonogram denoting coda consonant *-m
Tày
Adjective
音 (ăm )
Nôm form of ăm ( “ dead at birth ” ) .
𫰤蘆生𪦸音 邊𱖨 Mẻ rầư sinh lủc ăm vần vái Mothers who bear stillborns are immoral
References
Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003 ) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
Vietnamese
Han character
音 : Hán Nôm readings: âm , ậm , ơm
chữ Hán form of âm ( “ sound ; noise ” ) .
Compounds
Usage notes
Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese equivalent is âm .
References
Yaeyama
Kanji
音
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
Etymology
From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto , from Proto-Japonic *ətə .
Pronunciation
Noun
音( うとぅ ) (utu )
sound
Yonaguni
Kanji
音
(First grade kyōiku kanji )
Noun
音( うとぅ ) (utu )
うとぅ : sound