音

音 U+97F3, 音
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-97F3
← 韲
[U+97F2]
CJK Unified Ideographs 韴 →
[U+97F4]
⾳ U+2FB3, ⾳
KANGXI RADICAL SOUND
← ⾲
[U+2FB2]
Kangxi Radicals ⾴ →
[U+2FB4]

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)

  1. Kangxi radical #180, ⾳.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №58

Derived characters

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

simp. and trad.
音

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 音
Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) : 言 (“word”) with something in 口 (“mouth”) – sound comes from the mouth.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ing2 in 音訊;
  • ing1 in 聲音.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 音
Mandarin Beijing /in⁵⁵/
Harbin /in⁴⁴/
Tianjin /in²¹/
Jinan /iẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /iə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /in²⁴/
Xi'an /iẽ²¹/
Xining /iə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /in⁵⁵/
Chengdu /in⁵⁵/
Guiyang /in⁵⁵/
Kunming /ĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /in³¹/
Hefei /in²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /in⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔin³³/
Wenzhou /j̠aŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /iʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /in¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /in³³/
Xiangtan /in³³/
Gan Nanchang /in⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /im⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /im²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐm⁵³/
Nanning /jɐm⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐm⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /im⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /iŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /eiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /im³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /im²³/

Rime
Character 音
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於金切
Baxter 'im
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔjim/
Li
Rong
/ʔjəm/
Wang
Li
/ĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jam1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 音
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔim ›
Old
Chinese
/*[q](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. *[t] 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

  1. sound; voice; tone
    音障  ―  yīnzhàng  ―  sound barrier
  2. news; tidings
  3. (music) pitch; note (Classifier: 粒 c)
  4. (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

  • (sound):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 音
Kyūjitai
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音󠄁
音+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
音󠄃
音+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

音

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. sound
  2. timbre
  3. Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music
  4. speech (phonetics)
  5. Short for 字音 (jion): Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
  6. news, tidings

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
音
おん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

*/ʔiəm/ → /əmʉ/ → /omʉ/ → /oɴ/

From Middle Chinese 音 (MC 'im).

Pronunciation

Noun

音(おん) • (on) 

  1. sound
  2. (linguistics) speech sound
  3. Short for 音読み (on'yomi): the Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
  4. (by extension) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime
  5. Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
音
おと
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
音
おっと
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

⟨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) 

  1. a sound
    音(おと)を漏(も)らす
    oto o morasu
    to let out a sound
    音(おと)を立(た)てずに
    oto o tatezu ni
    without raising a sound → noiselessly; silently
  2. when used with a "hear" verb, a rumor or fame (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
  3. news, tidings
  4. a reply, response
Usage notes

Oto is used for loud sounds and voices, as opposed to ne (see below).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
音
と
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

⟨to2⟩ → */tə/ → /to/

The shift from oto above, with the initial o being dropped.

The drop is likely due to haplology with the possessive particle の (no).

Noun

音(と) • (to) 

  1. sound; echo; voice
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3453:
      , 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
  • 風(かぜ)の音(と)の (kaze no to no, pillow word)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
音
ね
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
哭

⟨ne2⟩ → */nəɨ/ → /ne/

From Old Japanese.

From 音 (na, “sound”, bound form) + い (i, emphatic nominative particle).

Pronunciation

Noun

音(ね) • (ne) 

  1. a sound, voice
  2. the cry of an animal
Usage notes

Ne is used for relatively soft sounds and voices that appeals to human emotions, as opposed to oto (see above).

Derived terms

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
音
いん
Grade: 1
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 音 (MC 'im).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ĩɴ]

Affix

音(いん) • (in) 

  1. (uncommon) Alternative form of 音 (on)
    1. sound
      子(し)音(いん)、母(ぼ)音(いん) ― shiin, boin ― (also shion, boon) consonant; vowel
    2. news; tidings; word
      音(いん)信(しん) ― inshin ― (also onshin) message, news

References

  1. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2305 (paper), page 1204 (digital)
  2. Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1353 (paper), page 689 (digital)
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  5. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  6. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  7. Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1964) The Makura-Kotoba of the Manyôśû, Leiden: Brill Archive, page 54

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))

  1. Hanja form? of 음 (“sound; news”).
  2. Hanja form? of 음 (“speech”).
  3. Hanja form? of 음 (“pronunciation”).
    • 訓之對 文字讀聲 (훈지대 문자독성, hunjidae munjadokseong) the complement of the hun (hence) the sound reading a (Chinese) character.

Synonyms

Compounds

Kunigami

Kanji

音

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɸutˀuː/

Noun

音(ふと゚ぅー) (futū) 

  1. sound

Tày

Adjective

音 (ăm)

  1. 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 [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Okinawan

Kanji

音

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔutu/

Noun

音(うとぅ) (utu) 

  1. sound

Old Korean

Phonogram

音 (*-m)

  1. A consonantal phonogram denoting coda consonant *-m

Vietnamese

Han character

音: Hán Nôm readings: âm, ậm, ơm

  1. chữ Hán form of âm (“sound; noise”).

Compounds

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese equivalent is âm.

References

Yaeyama

Kanji

音

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔutu/

Noun

音(うとぅ) (utu) 

  1. sound

Yonaguni

Kanji

音

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /utu/

Noun

音(うとぅ) (utu) 

  1. sound
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