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HSK
pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
HSK 2
voice / sound / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to record (sound) / sound recording / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message
HSK 4
dubbing (filmmaking)
HSK 7-9
rumble / noise / static (in a signal)
HSK 7-9
(linguistics) oral speech sounds
HSK 7-9
electronic music (genre)
accent (of a word) / stress (on a syllable)
good news
to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號|注音符号)
sound of the heart / heartbeat
bass
high pitch / soprano / treble
phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)
to pronounce / pronunciation / to emit sound
quiet / silent / mute
Gospel according to St Matthew
voice / accent
to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
voice
good news / glad tidings / gospel
(Tw) audio and video; audiovisual
(phonetics) voiceless sound
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音
to transmit / to broadcast
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
homonym / homophone / harmonic (component of sound)
one's speaking voice / tone / implication
to amplify (sound)
to silence
Boeing (aerospace company)
mordent (music)
nasal sound
(music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous; homonymic
consonant
Tieguanyin tea (a variety of oolong tea)
soundproofing
to tune (a musical instrument)
local accent / accent of one's native place
vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics)
lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow / fig. to make the final decision
lingering sound
(audio) mixing
final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
Douyin, Chinese app for creating and sharing short videos, released in its international version as TikTok
pure tone
noise
vowel
echo / reply / turn (ornament in music)
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds
overtone / a harmonic
phonetic transcription / transliteration
musical note / tone
coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
tuplet (music) / sandhi (phonetics)
keynote / principal tone / tonic / vowel
overtone (music) / (fig.) connotation / implied meaning
busy signal (telephony)
guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
fricative
fundamental tone
whole tone (musical interval)
(idiom) decadent music
sonorant
lit. the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom) / fig. sth hard to come by; sth wonderful and rare
to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
labial consonant
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  *音* | 音* | *音
sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)
(deferential) your letter
diphthong / compound vowel
dialectal accent
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Gospel according to St John
ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal , stone , clay , leather , silk 絲|丝, wood , gourd , bamboo ) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
phonetic value of a character
falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
harmony (pleasing combination of sounds)
(music) arpeggio
phonetic / phonological / transliteration
soprano
root of chord
The Voice of China, PRC reality talent show
Gospel according to St Mark
highest voice / highest pitch / highest note
consonant
bugle call
tenor (singing voice) / a tenor
polyphony
(linguistics) elision
backup vocal (music) / (phonetic) contraction
dominant (music)
Voice of America (VOA)
(music) tremolo
(linguistics) phonological reduction; lazy pronunciation; allegro speech
Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
intimate friend / soul mate
bilabial consonant (b, p, or m)

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