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Mythic Mandarin

音 (yīn): meaning and stroke order

音 (yīn) means sound, noise, note (of musical scale), tone, news, syllable.

音

Simplified
音
Traditional
音 (same form)
Pinyin
yīn

Stroke order of 音

音

  • yīn sound; noise
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 音

  1. yīn
    • sound
    • noise
    • note (of musical scale)
    • tone
    • news
    • syllable
    • reading (phonetic value of a character)

Radical and structure

音
Radical 音 (Kangxi radical 180) · 9 strokes · 立 on top, 日 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 音

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).