音 (jam1 | yin1) : sound; voice; noise; tone

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音

jam1

yin1

[1] [n] sound; voice; noise [2] [n] tone; pitch; accent; pronunciation; timbre [3] [n] musical note [4] news; information; tidings (usually used in correspondence) [5] Kangxi radical 180

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: (#180)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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This word has been viewed 20170 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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語音 jyu5 jam1 yu3 yin1 = enunciation

聲音 sing1 jam1 sheng1 yin1 = sound; noise; voice

播音 bo3 jam1 bo1 yin1 = transmit; broadcast

音樂 jam1 ngok6 yin1 yue4 = music

粵語拼音 jyut6 jyu5 ping3 jam1 yue4 yu3 pin1 yin1 = Cantonese romanisation

錄音 luk6 jam1 lu4 yin1 = sound-recording; to tape-record

音樂家 jam1 ngok6 gaa1 yin1 yue4 jia1 = musician

嗓音 song2 jam1 sang3 yin1 = voice

讀音 duk6 jam1 du2 yin1 = pronunciation (in reading)

同音字 tung4 jam1 zi6 tong2 yin1 zi4 = homonym (character with exactly the same sound)
See all 227 compounds (CantoDict reports 244 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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嗰啲蟬嘅聲音，我覺得好好聽㗎！粵
I love the sound of those cicadas [nearby]!
[This is an example of topicalisation: the topic of the sentence, 嗰啲蟬嘅聲音, is placed at the front.]

蟬嘅聲音，我覺得好好聽㗎！粵
I love the sound cicadas [in general] make.
[Note that because we haven't specified any particular cicadas, we're talking about cicadas in general. (Use 呢啲 or 嗰啲 otherwise.)]

我覺得蟬嘅聲音好好聽㗎！粵
I love the sound cicadas make!
[Lit. I feel cicada [possessive particle] sound very good-sound [particle]!]

我覺得呢啲蟬嘅聲音好好聽㗎！粵
I love the sound these cicadas are making!
[Lit. I feel these cicadas [possessive particle] sound very good-listen [particle].]

呢隻草蜢，我覺得佢嘅聲音好好聽㗎！粵
I love the sound this grasshopper makes!
[Lit. This [counter] grasshopper, I feel his sound very good-listen [particle].]

呢隻草蜢，我好鐘意佢嘅聲音㗎！粵
I love the sound this grasshopper makes!
[Lit. This [counter] grasshopper, I very like his sound [particle]. Note that 㗎 can be used interchangeably with 囉 here.]

人哋啱啱學廣東話，發音唔準，你就唔好嘥人啦。粵
Her pronunciation is a bit off as she has started learning Cantonese not long ago. You shouldn't tease her.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,135838,135838#msg-135838]

唱機壞了,發不出聲音國
The record player is broken, it's not making any sound.

古典音樂我比較鐘意長笛獨奏粵
As far as classical music is concerned, I prefer solo flute.
[Lit. classical music, I comparatively like flute solo ]

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