IDENTITY
音yīnsound; tone
HSK 2Top 250
CORE MEANING
sound; tone
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.soundHSK2
- 2.tone (of Chinese)HSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 音sound radical (yīn)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿱立日
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
音乐yīnyuèmusic
声音shēngyīnsound
录音lùyīnto record audio
Graded examples
音乐教室里传出歌声。Yīnyuè jiàoshì lǐ chuán chū gēshēng.HSK3
Singing comes from the music room.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) with sound (立 above 日) rising from it — a sound, a tone.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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