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concert / CL: 場|场
HSK 2
music / CL: 張|张, ,
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
loudness / volume
HSK 6
audio and video / audiovisual
HSK 6
sound; acoustics; audio / hi-fi system; stereo sound system (abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响)
HSK 7-9
musician
speed of sound
sound wave
sound effect
phoneme
(music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
letters / mail / news / messages / correspondence
music festival
pitch of voice (high or low) / pitch (of a musical note) / tone
tone / sound quality / timbre
loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box
(theater, cinema) a musical
concert hall / auditorium
music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, , and final and tone, 韻|韵, of a Chinese character / phoneme
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读. For example, has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
phonetic symbol
pitch (music) / tone
tone / timbre / sound color
vocal range / register (music)
sound track / track number (e.g. on a CD)
tuning fork
sound effects
phonetic change
music CD
Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
sound and meaning
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols
sound duration / length of a musical note
musical scale
tuning; temperament / music
sonic boom
interval (music)
(music) organ stop
names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
phonetic value
message
voice and features / (sb's) appearance
phoneme
tone deaf
music academy / conservatory
pipe (of an organ)
sound equipment / stereo
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sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)
The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)
stereo system
musicology
Music Television MTV
phonology
a note on a musical scale
sound and video
audio equipment
message
audio tape
formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋, 朗姆酒, 奶昔 and 米老鼠)
conservatory / music college
foot (syllabic unit in verse) / meter / scansion
syllabic script
sound and video
China Audio-Video Copyright Association (CAVCA)
audio / sound / audio frequency / sound frequency
audio file (computer)


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