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音 [yīn] ​声音 sound; 音​乐 music; ​语音 speech; ​口音 voice/accent; (radical 180, 音​部); (component: ​韵​韻​韶​響​黯…); (HDZ:) ​乐音; ​乐​曲, ​歌​谣; ​语音…; (​姓)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 音 yīn ‘articulated/musical sound/tone’ combines ​言 yán ‘direct speech’, with an extra ​一 line inside ​口(​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 ​䇂 qiān ‘offend’ (as in ​言), is abbrev. (omitting the ​丨 vertical stroke) to a shape like ​立.
    Compare: ​元音 yuányīn ‘vowel’, ​辅音 fǔyīn ‘consonant’; ​声音 shēngyīn ‘sound/voice’; ​乐音 yuèyīn ‘musical sound/tone; tone’.
    Compare: ​甘(​𤮺) gān ‘sweet’; ​日/​曰 yuē ‘say/speak’; ​言 yán ‘direct speech’.
    ​言 is the 180th of the 214 Kāngxī radicals (classifying only a few common characters).
    HDZ: 音 : yīn : ​乐音; ​乐​曲, ​歌​谣; ​语音 (​话音, ​口音, ​方音, ​配音); ​言​辞; ​意 (yì): ​意​思 (​话​中​之音); (​姓)
►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​日​​言​一​曰​䇂​𤮺
►Cantonese: yam\
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