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SimplifiedTraditionalPinyinEnglish
yīn- sound
- noise
- note (of musical scale)
- tone
- news
- syllable
- reading (phonetic value of a character)
sānyīn- third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)
chuànyīn- crosstalk
- to overhear
zhǔyīn- keynote
- principal tone
- tonic
- vowel
yīn- five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
- five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: [hou2 yin1], [ya2 yin1], [she2 yin1], |齿[chi3 yin1], [chun2 yin1]
jīnyīn- modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
yīn- bass
xiūyīn- voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
jiǎyīn- falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
yuányīn- vowel
quányīn- whole tone (musical interval)
yīn- music
- (used in advertising instrumental tuition)
- (archaic) musical instruments made of eight different materials (metal , stone , clay , leather , silk |, wood , gourd , bamboo )
qièyīn- to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
bànyīn- semitone
kǒuyīn- oral speech sounds (linguistics)
kǒuyin- voice
- accent
yīn- ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- classical speech sounds
tóngyīn- unison
- homophone
yīn- sound-absorbing
yīn- harmony (pleasing combination of sounds)
chúnyīn- labial consonant
hóuyīn- guttural sound
- (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
sǎngyīn- voice
zàoyīn- rumble
- noise
- static (in a signal)
huíyīn- echo
- reply
- turn (ornament in music)
guóyīn- official state pronunciation
yīn- fundamental tone
yīn- plosive
- stop consonant
duōyīn- polyphony
yīn- consonant
yīn- phonetic value of a character
dìngyīn- to call the tune
- to make the final decision
wěiyīn- final sound of a syllable
- rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
shǔyīn- dominant (music)
yǐngyīn- recorded media (CD and DVD)
- sound and movies
xīnyīn- sound of the heart
- heartbeat
pīnyīn- phonetic writing
- pinyin (Chinese romanization)
yīn- to transmit
- to broadcast
yīn- fricative
yīn- to make a sound effect
- sound effect
kuòyīn- to amplify (sound)
fàngyīn- playback (of recorded sound)
fāngyīn- dialectal accent
gēnyīn- root of chord
yuèyīn- musical note
- tone
zhèngyīn- standard pronunciation
- to correct sb's pronunciation
yīn- vowel
fànyīn- overtone
- a harmonic
yīn- Boeing
yīn- mordent (music)
zhùyīn- Annotated Sounds, a phonetic transliteration for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan
- also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ
xiāoyīn- to silence
hùnyīn- (audio) mixing
qīngyīn- unvoiced consonant
- voiceless consonant
huáyīn- glissando
zhuóyīn- voiced consonant (English z or v, as opposed to unvoiced s or f)
bàoyīn- sonic boom
yīn- velar consonants of Middle Chinese
yīn- to pronounce
- pronunciation
- to emit sound
zhīyīn- intimate friend
- soul mate
yīn- good news
- glad tidings
- gospel
chúnyīn- pure tone
shēngyīn- voice
- sound
- CL:|[ge4]
xiōngyīn- chest voice
shéyīn- coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
hàoyīn- bugle call
biǎoyīn- phonetic
- phonological
- transliteration
Guānyīn- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
huàyīn- one's speaking voice
- tone
- implication
yīn- voice
- colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
調tiáoyīn- to tune (a musical instrument)
xiéyīn- homonym
- homophone
- harmonic (component of sound)
yīn- phonetic transcription
- transliteration
yīn- pronunciation
- literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
zǒuyīn- off-key
- out of tune (music)
yīn- consonant
biānyīn- lateral consonant (phonetics)
xiāngyīn- local accent
- accent of one's native place
pèiyīn- dubbing (filmmaking)
zhòngyīn- accent (of a word)
- stress (on a syllable)
yīn- to record (sound)
- sound recording
- CL:|[ge4]
yīn- sound-proofing
yīn- noise
diànyīn- electronic music (genre)
zhènyīn- tremolo
jìngyīn- quiet
- silent
- mute
fēiyīn- (ling) unstressed (syllable)
yīnwèi- phoneme
yīnxìn- message
yīnzhí- phonetic value
yīnxiàng- audio and video
- audiovisual
yīnchā- tuning fork
yīnmíng- name of pitch (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
yīn- vocal range
- register (music)
yīnróng- voice and features
- (sb's) appearance
yīndài- audio tape
yīn- tuning
- temperament
yīnshuān- organ stop (button activating a row of pipes)
yīnxiào- sound effect
yīnyuè- music
- CL:|[zhang1],[qu3],[duan4]
yīnbiāo- phonetic symbol
yīn- foot (syllabic unit in verse)
- meter
- scansion
yīn- sound wave
yīnbào- sonic boom
yīnchī- tone deaf
yīnchéng- interval (music)
yīn- (music) note
- phonetic component of a Chinese character
- phonetic symbol
- phonogram
yīnguǎn- pipe (of organ)
yīnxiāng- loudspeaker box
- speaker (audio equipment)
- resonating chamber of a musical instrument
- sound box
yīnjié- syllable
yīn- a note on a musical scale
yīn- phoneme
yīn- sound and meaning
yīnhào- message
yīn- tone
- timbre
- sound color
yīnshì- sound and video
yīnxùn- letters
- mail
- news
- messages
- correspondence
調yīndiào- pitch of voice (high or low)
- pitch (of a musical note)
- tone
yīn- transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
- characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
- transcription (linguistics)
- to transcribe phonetic symbols
yīn- reading or phonetic value of a character
yīnbiàn- phonetic change
yīnzhì- tone
- sound quality
- timbre
yīnguǐ- sound track
- track number (e.g. on a CD)
yīn- speed of sound
yīnliàng- sound volume
yīncháng- sound duration
- length of a musical note
yīnjiē- musical scale
yīnyùn- music
- rhyme and rhythm
- initial, [yin1], and final and tone, |[yun4], of a Chinese character
- phoneme
yīnxiǎng- sound
- acoustics
- audio
- hi-fi system
- stereo sound system
- abbr. for 組合|组合[zu3 he2 yin1 xiang3]
yīnpín- audio
- sound
- audio frequency
- sound frequency
yīngāo- pitch (music)
- tone
xiǎngyīn- sonorant
chànyīn- vibrato (of stringed instrument)
- trill (in phonetics)
yīn- lingering sound
shǒuyīn- onset
gāoyīn- high pitch
- soprano
- treble
yīn- nasal sound
齿chǐyīn- dental consonant
yínyīn- alveolar sound (linguistics)
sānyīn- third (musical interval)
yīn- fifth (musical interval)
yīnpào- subwoofer
yīnguǎn- bassoon
- also written 巴頌管|巴颂管 or 巴松管
jiǎgāoyīn- falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
quányīn- whole tone (musical interval)
yīn- musical box
fēnyīn- dieresis
- umlaut
- diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
qiányīn- alveolar nasal
- consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridge
Běijīngyīn- Beijing pronunciation
bànyīnchéng- semitone
tóngyīn- homophonic characters
tóngyīn- homophonic words
齿chúnchǐyīn- labiodental (e.g. the consonant f in standard Chinese)
hóuyīn- glottal stop
hóuyīn- guttural fricative
dānyīnjié- monosyllabic
- a monosyllable
dānyīn- monosyllabic word
zàoyīn- boombox
- ghetto blaster
duōyīn- character with two or more readings
gāoyīn- soprano
dìngyīn- timpani
píngshéyīn- alveolar
- consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
hòuyīn- velar nasal
- consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate
xīnyīn- see 心臟雜|心脏杂[xin1 zang4 za2 yin1]
shíyīn- pickup (electro-acoustic transducer)
ànjiànyīn- keypad tone
- key tone
shìyīn- beep
hàoyīn- dial tone
yīnyuán- announcer
- broadcaster
kuòyīn- megaphone
- loudspeaker
- amplifier
- microphone
kuòyīn- amplifier
- loudspeaker
- hearing aid
shōuwěiyīn- final (i.e. final consonant or stop of some syllables in Asian phonetics)
shōuyīn- radio
- CL:|[tai2]
zuìyīn- lowest voice
- lowest pitch
- lowest note
zuìgāoyīn- highest voice
- highest pitch
- highest note
yǒuyīn- aspirated consonant (in phonetics)
běnwèiyīn- (music) natural note
biāozhǔnyīn- standard pronunciation
- standard tone (e.g. A = 440 Hz)
biāoyīn- phonetic transcription
- system of representing spoken sounds
xiāoyīn- silencer
mièyīn- muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
nánzhōngyīn- baritone
nányīn- bass (music)
- lower register male voice
nángāoyīn- tenor
yīn- sound producing object (soundboard, vibrating string, membrane etc)
yīn- character with two or more readings
- character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)
yīnshū- gospel
qiàoshéyīn- retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
shéjiānyīn- apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)
shūshìyīn- comfortable voice (well within one's range of pitch)
yīnxíng- diphthong
- liaison
yīn- disyllabic word
- polysyllabic word
Guānshìyīn- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
Guānyīnxiāng- Guanyin or Kuanyin township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan
zhùyīn- phonetic transcription
- system of representing spoken sounds
yīnxué- phonetics
xiéyīnliè- harmonic series
chāoyīn- ultrasound
- ultrasonic wave
chāoyīn- supersonic
ruǎnyínyīn- velar sound (linguistics)
qīngyīnyuè- light music
huíyīn- inverted turn (ornament in music)
zhòngyīnjié- accented syllable
- stress
yīndài- audio tape
- CL:|[pan2],[he2]
yīn- (tape) recording machine
- tape recorder
- CL:|[tai2]
Tiěguānyīn- Tieguanyin tea
yuányīn- close vowel
yīnjié- closed syllable
shuāngyuányīn- diphthong
shuāngchúnyīn- bilabial consonant (b, p, or m)
shuāngyīnjié- bisyllable
Hányīn- Han Suyin (1917-2012), Eurasian physician and author
yīnyuèxué- musicology
yīnyuèjiā- musician
yīnyuètīng- concert hall
- auditorium
yīnyuèhuì- concert
- CL:|[chang3]
yīnyuèjié- music festival
yīnyuèyuàn- conservatory
- music college
yīnjié- syllabic script
yīnshìpín- sound and video
yīnyùnxué- Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
èyínyīn- prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics)
- palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
shǒuwěiyīn- onset and rime
gāoyīn- upper register
- soprano part
齿chǐchúnyīn- see 唇齒|唇齿[chun2 chi3 yin1]
齿chǐyínyīn- alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
yínyīn- alveolar fricative (linguistics)
yínyīn- palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
yínèyīn- prepalatal sound (linguistics)
yínèyīn- alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
chuídìngyīn- variant of 一錘定|一锤定[yi1 chui2 ding4 yin1]
chuídìngyīn- lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow
- fig. to make the final decision
shēngyīnjiē- heptatonic scale
èrfēnyīn- minim (music)
èrchóngyīn- diphthong
shēngyīnjiē- pentatonic scale
yīnquán- tone deaf
- unable to sing in tune
yīnba- woofer
yīnhào- bass tuba
- euphonium
yīnqín- double bass
- contrabass
yuányīnxié- vowel harmony (in phonetics of Altaic languages)
yuányīnshī- vowel devoicing
xiānyīn- pre-recording
- to pre-record
fēnyīn- quaver
- eighth note
chūshényīnyuè- trance (music genre)
Yìnyīnyuè- Bhangra, Indian music (music genre)
juǎnshéyuányīn- retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
diǎnyīnyuè- classical music
yīnxìng- pronounceability
chéngyīn- assembled phonology
fēnyīn- crotchet (music)
guóyīnbiāo- international phonetic alphabet
duōyīnjié- polysyllabic word
- Chinese word made up of three or more characters
Wēipīnyīn- Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
shíkuàngyīn- live recording
xiánwàizhīyīn- overtone (music)
- (fig.) connotation
- implied meaning
ruòyīnbǎn- soft pedal (on piano)
- una corda pedal
qiángyīnbǎn- loud pedal (on piano)
- sustaining pedal
xīnzàngyīn- heart murmur
pīnyīn- phonetic letters
pīnyīnwén- phonetic alphabet
- alphabetic writing system
pīnyīnjiēduàn- alphabetic stage
juǎnshéyuányīn- retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
yǎoyīnxìn- to have no news whatever
fànhànduìyīn- Sanskrit-Chinese transliteration
調yīntiáo- vowel harmony (in phonetics)
mínjiānyīnyuè- folk music
zhùyīnshì- Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1
- Bopomofo
- abbr. for 國語注符號第一式|国语注符号第一式[Guo2 yu3 zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4 di4 yi1 shi4]
Zhùyīn- see 符號|符号[Zhu4 yin1 Fu2 hao4]
Zhùyīnhào- Zhuyin Fuhao, phonetic transliteration system for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ
liúxíngyīnyuè- popular music
miǎoyīnxìn- to receive no news whatsoever about sb
HànPīnyīn- Hanyu Pinyin, the pinyin transliteration system used in PRC since the 1960s
juéshìyīnyuè- jazz (loanword)
xiàndàiyīnyuè- modern music
- contemporary music
dòuyīn- Gospel according to St Matthew
nángāoyīn- tenor part
yīnguān- vocal organs
- vocal cords
kōngyīn- sound of footsteps in an empty valley (idiom); a rare occurrence
- That's sth you don't often hear!
lèiyīn- synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with similar accounts and chronology)
YuèPīnyīn- Cantonese romanization
- Jyutping, one of the many Cantonese romanization systems
Yuēhànyīn- Gospel according to St John
yīnxiǎng- hi-fi system
- stereo sound system
- abbr. to |[yin1 xiang3]
wǎngluòyīn- VoIP (Voice over IP) (computing)
- to speak with others over the Internet
MěiguóZhīYīn- Voice of America (VOA)
bèijǐngyīnyuè- background music (BGM)
- soundtrack
- musical setting
shéjiānqiányīn- alveolar
- consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
shéjiānhòuyīn- retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
shéjiānchànyīn- alveolar trill (e.g. Russian r sound)
táiyīnyuè- musical theater
Ruòwàngyīn- Gospel according to St John
xiùzhēnyīnxiǎng- pocket stereo
- walkman
yīnchéng- complementary interval
- addition musical interval adding to an octave
yuányīn- diphthong (such as putonghua ɑi, uei etc)
yīn- diphthong
- compound vowel
Guānyīn- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
XùnmínZhèngyīn- Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul
yīnxìnxiāng- voice mailbox
- voicemail
yīnxìnhào- voice signal
yīnchéng- speech synthesis
yīnshí- phonetic awareness
yīnqiǎo- phonological skill
yīnzhǐlìng- speech command (for computer speech recognition)
yīnshíbié- speech recognition
yīncuò- mistake of pronunciation
jiāyīn- Gospel according to St Luke
tōngyòngpīnyīn- the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003
xiāngcūnyīnyuè- country music (country & western music genre)
zhīyīn- decadent or obscene music
Yīnyuèzhīshēng- The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)
yīnyuèguāngdié- music CD
yīnyuèxuéyuàn- music academy
- conservatory
yīnyuèdiànshì- Music Television MTV
yīnxiǎngxiàoguǒ- sound effects
yīnxiǎngshèbèi- sound equipment
- stereo
yīnpínwénjiàn- audio file (computer)
yīnpínshèbèi- sound card
- audio card (computer)
yīnràoliáng- reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
ráoshéyīnyuè- rap music
yīn- Gospel according to St Mark
tàiyīn- Gospel according to St Matthew
gāoyīnba- tweeter
ZhōngguóHǎoShēngyīn- The Voice of China, PRC reality talent show
yīnjiédānwèi- sub-syllabic unit
yīnqín- double bass
- contrabass
duōyīnduō- character having several readings and meanings
WēiTuǒpīnyīn- Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
Wēishìzhùyīn- Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese
滿yīnmǎn- Bayan Mandahu, village in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia, noted for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils
yīnguōlèngzhōu- abbr. for Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang
- abbr. for 郭愣蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng4 Meng3 gu3 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
zhēnshēngzuìgāoyīn- highest true (non-falsetto) voice
Guānshìyīn- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
yīnshīzhèng- phonetic aphasia
ShànghǎiYīnyuèXuéyuàn- Shanghai Conservatory of Music
ZhōngyāngYīnyuèXuéyuàn- Central Conservatory of Music
yīncǎoyuán- Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains
shìyīndài- cassette tape
duǎnshíyīn- short-term phonological memory
HuàYīnyuètuán- Warner Music Group
yīntōngxùntōngdào- voice (communications) channel
shǒupīnyīn- acronym
Guózhùyīnhàoshì- Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan)
- Bopomofo
- abbr. to 一式[zhu4 yin1 yi1 shi4]
yīnguōlèngMěngzhìzhōu- Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang
yīnguōléngMěngzhìzhōu- Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang
tīnghuàtīngshēng,luótīngyīn- to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)

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