五音

Chinese

		five	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (五音)		五	音

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔyīn

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ jam¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wǔyīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄧㄣ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuuin
  - IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ in⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁵ jam¹
  - Yale: ńgh yām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ jam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ yem¹
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

五音

(music) the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale (宮, 商, 角, 徵, 羽, also called 合, 四, 乙, 尺, 工 after the Tang dynasty, equivalent to do, re, mi, sol, la in the Western solfège system or 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 in the Chinese numbered musical notation system)
(phonetics) the five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics (喉音, 舌音, 齒音, 唇音, 牙音)

Derived terms

五音不全 (wǔyīnbùquán)

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