Kanji1 / 9
音 kanji
sound, noise
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
オンイン-ノン
Kun readings
おとね
Words with 音
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —爆発音sound of an explosion
- —着信音ringtone
- —開音節open syllable
- —顫動音trill
- —音仮名kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana)
- —開口音(of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel; (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds
- —合口音(of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel; (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds
- —ウ音便euphonic change wherein some mora ('ku', 'gu', 'hi', 'bi' and 'mi') are pronounced 'u'
- —イ音便euphonic change wherein some mora ('ki', 'gi', 'shi' and 'ri') are pronounced 'i'
- —金属音metallic sound; metallic clank
- —受信音ringtone (of mobile phones, portable phones, cellphones, etc.)
- —音変化sound change
- —発音器sound-producing organ (esp. of land-dwelling vertebrates and insects)
- —遷音速transonic speed
- —陽音階anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
- —陰音階hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)
- —律音階ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
- —静音性quietness; low noise
- —静音化damping; muffling; noise-reduction
- —閉音節closed syllable