Zi:音
音 [yīn] (声音 shēngyīn) sound; 音乐 yīnyuè music
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The bottom 曰 (yuē) is 口 (kǒu) ‘mouth’ with a horizontal line in it, representing the tongue, or sound coming out. The top may have depicted a flute; now it looks like 立 (lì ‘stand’). The tops of 音 yīn ‘sound’ and 言 yán ‘words’ were originally identical. 音 yīn and 言 yán may be cognate.
►references: Guǎngyùn:220.09; Wieger:73e; Henshall:6; Karlgren:AD277,GSR653a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:7.4495.1; Lindqvist:311; Mathews:7418; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1396.25; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:128.1.01; Wáng(1993):14
►components: 立曰日
►Cantonese: yam\
<cdl char='音' uni='97F3' points='0,0 128,124'>
<comp char='立' uni='7ACB' points='0,0 128,60' />
<comp char='日' uni='65E5' points='24,82 104,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='立' uni='7ACB' points='4,0 124,120'>
<comp char='亣' uni='4EA3' variant='5' points='8,0 120,116' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='亣' uni='4EA3' variant='5' points='4,0 124,120'>
<comp char='亠' uni='4EA0' points='0,0 128,46' />
<comp char='丷' uni='4E37' points='24,62 96,128' />
<!-- 2010-03-12T00:35:23Z -->
<!-- variant based on [U+E0EB](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='亠' uni='4EA0' points='0,16 128,48'>
<stroke type='d' points='54,0 68,92' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='丷' uni='4E37' points='32,16 96,64' radical='D1 K12 Q'>
<stroke type='d' points='0,0 34,116' />
<stroke type='p' points='128,6 84,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='日' uni='65E5' points='24,8 104,120'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,60 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 128,0' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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