Zi:音

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[yīn] ​音 sound; 音​ music; ​音 speech; ​音 voice/accent; (radical 180, 音​); (component: ​…); (HDZ:) ​音; ​, ​; ​音…; (​)

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 音 yīn ‘articulated/musical sound/tone’ combines ​ yán ‘direct speech’, with an extra ​ line inside ​(​𠙵) kǒu ‘mouth/voice’, indicating that in articulate speech or tuneful music, the mouth/voice produces one (segmented/segmental) speech sound or musical pitch/note at a time.
    In the modern form 音, the top part ​ qiān ‘offend’ (as in ​), is abbrev. (omitting the ​ vertical stroke) to a shape like ​.
    Compare: ​音 yuányīn ‘vowel’, ​音 fǔyīn ‘consonant’; ​音 shēngyīn ‘sound/voice’; ​音 yuèyīn ‘musical sound/tone; tone’.
    Compare: ​(​𤮺) gān ‘sweet’; ​/​ yuē ‘say/speak’; ​ yán ‘direct speech’.
    ​ is the 180th of the 214 Kāngxī radicals (classifying only a few common characters).
    HDZ: 音 : yīn : ​音; ​, ​; ​音 (​音, ​音, ​音, ​音); ​; ​ (yì): ​ (​音); (​)
►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:𤮺
►Cantonese: yam\
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