音 — sound; noise; note
sound; noise; note; tone; news; syllable; reading
- Pinyin
- yīn
- Strokes
- 9
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- required
How to write 音: 9 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.
Words with 音 in the HSK syllabus: 14
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 声音shēngyīnsound; voiceHSK 3
- 音乐yīnyuèmusicHSK 3
- 读音dúyīnpronunciationHSK 5
- 发音fāyīnto pronounce; pronunciation; to emit soundHSK 5
- 录音lùyīnto record sound; an audio recordingHSK 5
- 拼音pīnyīnphonetic writing; pinyinHSK 5
- 音量yīnliàngloudness; volumeHSK 5
- 语音yǔyīnspeech sounds; pronunciationHSK 5
- 音节yīnjiésyllableHSK 6
- 口音kǒuyīnoral speech soundsHSK 7–9
- 配音pèiyīndubbingHSK 7–9
- 嗓音sǎngyīnvoiceHSK 7–9
- 收音机shōuyīnjīradioHSK 7–9
- 音响yīnxiǎngsound; acoustics; audioHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.