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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形) – a mouth and tongue with something on them (sound). Compare , .

Han character [edit]

(radical 180 +0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日 (YTA), four-corner 00601, composition)

  1. sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 1396, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43265
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1912, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4495, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+97F3

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping jam1, Yale yam1)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ yim, Guangdong jim1; jm1 [Meixian], zim1 [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim yim1)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana おん, romaji on)

  1. sound

Compounds [edit]

  • 音塵 (おんじん, onjin)
  • 音声 (おんせい, onsei)
  • 音制 (おんせい, onsei)
  • 音節 (おんせつ, onsetsu)
  • 音素 (おんそ, onso)
  • 音息 (おんそく, onsoku)
  • 音速 (おんそく, onsoku)
  • 音痴 (おんち, onchi)
  • 音注 (おんちゅう, onchū)
  • 音調 (おんちょう, onchō)
  • 音程 (おんてい, ontei)
  • 音通 (おんつう, ontsū)
  • 音読 (おんどく, ondoku)
  • 音波 (おんぱ, onpa)

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised eum, McCune-Reischauer ŭm, Yale um)

  1. (소리 음, sori-): sound
  2. (소식 음, sosig-): news
  3. ( 음, mal-): speech
  4. ( 음, eum-): pronunciation
    • 之對 文字讀聲 (지대 문자독성, hunjidae munjadokseong) the complement of the hun (hence) the sound reading a (Chinese) character.

Synonyms [edit]

Compounds [edit]


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin yīn (yin1), Wade-Giles yin1)

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(âm, ậm, ơm)