音聲

See also: 音声

Chinese

		sound; noise; news	sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds) sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise
trad. (音聲)		音	聲
simp. (音声)		音	声
anagram		聲音／声音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīnshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹ sing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīnshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yinsheng
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹-shêng¹
    • Yale: yīn-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: insheng
    • Palladius: иньшэн (inʹšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam¹ sing¹
    • Yale: yām sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹ sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem¹ xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'im syeng

Rime
Character	音	聲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	於金切	書盈切
Baxter	'im	syeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪm/	/ɕiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚim/	/ɕiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiem/	/ɕiæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjim/	/ɕiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔjəm/	/ɕiɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭĕm/	/ɕĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əm/	/ɕi̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīn	shēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam1	sing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[q](r)əm  [l̥]eŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯm  qʰjeŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	音	聲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yīn	shēng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔim ›	‹ syeng ›
Old Chinese	/*[q](r)əm/	/*[l̥]eŋ/
English	sound, tone	sound (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	音	聲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15223	10514
Phonetic component	音	殸
Rime group	侵	耕
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	音	聲
Old Chinese	/*qrɯm/	/*qʰjeŋ/

Noun

音聲

1. (literary) music (series of sounds organized in time)
2. (literary) sound

Synonyms

• (music):

• 弦歌 (xiángē) (figurative)
• 樂／乐 (literary, or in compounds)
• 音樂／音乐 (yīnyuè)

 

• (sound):

Dialectal synonyms of 聲音 (“voice; sound”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		聲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聲音, 聲響, 響聲, 響, 聲, 音, 音聲, 音響 acoustics
Mandarin	Beijing	聲兒, 聲音
	Taiwan	聲音
	Jinan	聲音, 聲兒
	Xi'an	聲音, 聲
	Xining	聲氣
	Wuhan	聲氣, 聲音
	Chengdu	聲氣, 聲音
	Yangzhou	聲音, 聲
	Hefei	聲音
	Malaysia	聲音
	Singapore	聲音
Cantonese	Guangzhou	聲音, 聲
	Hong Kong	聲, 聲音
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	聲
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	聲
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	聲
	Taishan	聲
	Yangjiang	聲
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	聲
	Singapore (Guangfu)	聲
Gan	Nanchang	聲氣
	Lichuan	聲
	Pingxiang	聲
Hakka	Meixian	聲音, 聲
	Huiyang	聲
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	聲
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	聲
	Wengyuan	聲音
	Liannan	聲
	Jiexi	聲
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	聲
	Changting	聲氣
	Wuping (Yanqian)	聲音
	Ninghua	聲音
	Ningdu	聲音
	Shangyou (Shexi)	聲音
	Tonggu (Sandu)	聲音
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	聲音
	Dayu	聲響
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聲音, 聲
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	聲音, 聲
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	聲音, 聲
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	聲音, 聲
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	聲音, 聲
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	聲音
	Hong Kong	聲音, 聲
	Yangxi (Tangkou)	聲
	Yangchun (Sanjia)	聲音
	Xinyi (Sihe)	聲
	Xinyi (Qianpai)	聲
	Gaozhou (Xindong)	聲
	Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)	聲
	Huazhou (Xin'an)	聲
	Lianjiang (Shijiao)	聲, 聲音
	Lianjiang (Qingping)	聲
	Mengshan (Xihe)	聲音
	Luchuan	聲音
	Senai (Huiyang)	聲
Huizhou	Jixi	聲音
Jin	Taiyuan	聲音, 音聲
Northern Min	Jian'ou	聲音
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	聲音, 聲
Southern Min	Xiamen	聲, 聲說 voice
	Quanzhou	聲, 聲說 voice
	Zhangzhou	聲, 聲說 voice
	Taipei	聲 GT, 聲說 GT, voice
	Kaohsiung	聲
	Yilan	聲
	Changhua (Lukang)	聲
	Taichung	聲
	Taichung (Wuqi)	聲
	Tainan	聲
	Taitung	聲音
	Hsinchu	聲
	Penghu (Magong)	聲
	Penang (Hokkien)	聲
	Singapore (Hokkien)	聲
	Manila (Hokkien)	聲
	Chaozhou	聲
	Shantou	聲
	Jieyang	聲
	Haifeng	聲說
	Bangkok (Teochew)	聲
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	聲
	Singapore (Teochew)	聲
	Leizhou	聲
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	聲
Wu	Shanghai	聲音
	Shanghai (Chongming)	聲音
	Suzhou	聲音, 響聲
	Ningbo	聲音, 聲響
	Wenzhou	聲音, 聲響
Xiang	Changsha	聲音
	Loudi	聲
	Shuangfeng	聲音, 聲響
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (音聲):

• → Japanese: 音声(おんせい) (onsei)
• → Korean: 음성(音聲) (eumseong)
• → Vietnamese: âm thanh (音聲)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
音	聲
おん Grade: 1	せい Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 音聲 – see the following entry.

【音声おんせい】 [noun] speech sound, voice [noun] audio, the sound from a television etc.

(This term, 音聲, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
音	聲

Noun

音聲 • (eumseong) (hangeul 음성)

1. Hanja form^? of 음성 (“voice”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
音	聲

Noun

音聲

1. chữ Hán form of âm thanh (“sound”).