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音 (Kangxi radical 180, 音+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日 (YTA), four-corner 0060₁, composition ⿱立日 or ⿱亠𣅑)

1. Kangxi radical #180, ⾳.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №58

• Appendix:Chinese radical/音
• 偣, 𠗥, 喑, 堷, 㛺, 𡺈, 𢄈, 愔, 揞, 摿, 湆, 𤟟, 隌, 暗, 𪳀, 𬇂, 𤋾, 腤, 𥚱, 𤭵, 𪾲, 𥏮, 䅧, 𥻚, 𦂺, 𦖢, 諳(谙), 䜾, 𮛾, 𨍑, 䤃, 𮢣, 𩈴, 𮧡, 䬓(𫗊), 𩩿, 𬛯, 𩹎, 黯, 𩆢, 𥃛, 𪛏
• 𪟠, 𫦊, 戠, 𢻕, 𢾑, 𢾚, 歆, 𪵦, 𫅬, 𧡱, 𧯹, 𪱐, 鶕(𬸝), 𥃚, 意, 𡩘, 𡺞, 萻, 窨, 罯, 𦋫, 𩄒, 𩮋, 𪔧, 𩇄, 𫨏, 𢉩, 瘖, 闇(𬮴), 𧗹, 𫭏

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

Historical forms of the character 音
Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) : 言 (“word”) with something in 口 (“mouth”) – sound comes from the mouth.

音

1. sound; voice; tone

   蘿莉音／萝莉音  ―  luólìyīn  ―  loli voice

2. news; tidings
3. (music) pitch; note
4. (phonetics) pronunciation; syllable

   京音  ―  jīngyīn  ―  Beijing pronunciation

   潮音  ―  cháoyīn  ―  Teochew pronunciation

   中古音  ―  zhōnggǔyīn  ―  Middle Chinese pronunciation

   方音  ―  fāngyīn  ―  dialectal pronunciation

   陽江音／阳江音  ―  Yángjiāng yīn  ―  Yangjiang pronunciation

• (sound): (literary, or in compounds) 聲／声 (shēng), 聲音／声音 (shēngyīn), (literary) 音聲／音声 (yīnshēng), (acoustics) 音響／音响 (yīnxiǎng)

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. sound
2. timbre
3. Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music
4. speech (phonetics)
5. Short for 字音 (jion): Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
6. news, tidings

• Go-on: おん (on, Jōyō)^{←おん (on, historical)←おむ (omu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: いん (in, Jōyō)^{←いん (in, historical)←いむ (imu, ancient)}
• Kun: おと (oto, 音, Jōyō); と (to, 音); ね (ne, 音, Jōyō); たより (tayori, 音り)
• Nanori: お (o); とん (ton); なり (nari); ねね (nene); のん (non); ひびき (hibiki); りり (riri)

*/ʔiəm/ → /əmʉ/ → /omʉ/ → /oɴ/

From Middle Chinese 音 (MC ʔˠiɪm).

• On’yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) おん [òń] (Heiban – [0])[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [õ̞ɴ]

音(おん) • (on) 

1. sound
2. (linguistics) speech sound
3. Short for 音読み (on'yomi): the Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
4. (by extension) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime
5. Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music

⟨oto₂⟩ → */otə/ → /oto/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

Appears in the late 1400s with the geminate pronunciation /otto/.[5] This reading is very rare, and appears to have fallen out of use.

• (Tokyo) おと​ [òtóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[3][4][6]
• IPA^(key): [o̞to̞]
• IPA^(key): [o̞t̚to̞]

(rare, obsolete)

音(おと) • (oto) 

1. a sound

   音(おと)を漏(も)らす

   oto o morasu

   to let out a sound

   音(おと)を立(た)てずに

   oto o tatezu ni

   without raising a sound → noiselessly; silently

2. when used with a "hear" verb, a rumor or fame (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. news, tidings
4. a reply, response

Oto is used for loud sounds and voices, as opposed to ne (see below).

• 足音(あしおと) (ashioto)
• 音(おと)に聞(き)く (oto ni kiku)

⟨to₂⟩ → */tə/ → /to/

The shift from oto above, with the initial o being dropped.

The drop is likely due to haplology with the possessive particle の (no).

音(と) • (to) 

1. sound; echo; voice
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3453), text here

     可是能(かぜの)等(と)能(の)登抱吉和伎母賀(とほきわぎもが)吉西斯伎奴(きせしきぬ)多母登乃久太利(たもとのくだり)麻欲比伎尓家利(まよひきにけり) [Man'yōgana]

     風(かぜ)の音(と)の遠(とほ)き我妹(わぎも)が着(き)せし衣(きぬ)手(た)本(もと)のくだりまよひ来(き)にけり [Modern spelling]

     kaze no to no tōki wagimo ga kiseshi-kinu tamoto no kudari, mayoi-ki ni keri

     My dear wife, far away (as the sound of the wind), some threads of the sleeves of the kimono you made me wear have come to be worn and chafed![7]

• 風(かぜ)の音(と)の (kaze no to no, pillow word)

⟨ne₂⟩ → */nəɨ/ → /ne/

From Old Japanese.

From 音 (na, “sound”, bound form) + い (i, emphatic nominative particle).

• 哭

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) ね [nè] (Heiban – [0])[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ne̞]

音(ね) • (ne) 

1. a sound, voice
2. the cry of an animal

Ne is used for relatively soft sounds and voices that appeals to human emotions, as opposed to oto (see above).

• 音(ね)色(いろ) (neiro, “timbre”)
• 泣(な)く, 哭(な)く (naku, “cry”)
• 空(そら)音(ね) (sorane, “imitative cry”)

From Middle Chinese 音 (MC ʔˠiɪm).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

音(いん) • (in) 

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of 音 (on)
   1. sound

      子(し)音(いん)、母(ぼ)音(いん) ― shiin, boin ― (also shion, boon) consonant; vowel

   2. news; tidings; word

      音(いん)信(しん) ― inshin ― (also onshin) message, news

音 (eumhun 소리 음 (sori eum))

1. Hanja form^? of 음 (“sound; news”).
2. Hanja form^? of 음 (“speech”).
3. Hanja form^? of 음 (“pronunciation”).
   • 訓之對 文字讀聲 (훈지대 문자독성, hunjidae munjadokseong) the complement of the hun (hence) the sound reading a (Chinese) character.

• 聲

音

• Kun: ふと゚ぅー (futū)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

• IPA^(key): /ɸutˀuː/

音 (hiragana ふと゚ぅー, romaji futū)

1. sound

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: うとぅ (utu, 音)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

• IPA^(key): /ʔutu/

音 (hiragana うとぅ, rōmaji utu)

1. sound

音 (*-m)

1. A consonantal phonogram denoting coda consonant *-m

音: Hán Nôm readings: âm, ậm, ơm

1. sound; noise

• 音聲 (âm thanh)
• 元音 (nguyên âm)
• 回音 (hồi âm)
• 觀音 (Quan Âm)
• 輔音 (phụ âm)
• 音樂 (âm nhạc)
• 音樂古典 (âm nhạc cổ điển)

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese equivalent is âm.

• www.chunom.org

音

• Kun: うとぅ (utu)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

• IPA^(key): /ʔutu/

音 (hiragana うとぅ, romaji utu)

1. sound

音

• Kun: うとぅ (utu)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *oto, from Proto-Japonic *ətə.

• IPA^(key): /utu/

音 (hiragana うとぅ, romaji utu)

1. sound