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八音
bāyīn
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English Definitionancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹); the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories; music
Simplified Script八音
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinbāyīn
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄅㄚ ㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping)baat3jam1
Word Decomposition
八bāeight; 8
音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)

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八卦bāguàthe eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy
八字bāzìthe character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
八月bāyuèAugust; eighth month (of the lunar year)
八成bāchéngeighty percent; most probably; most likely
八路军bā lù jūnEighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Words With Same Tail Word    
声音shēngyīnvoice; sound
录音lùyīnto record (sound); sound recording
噪音zàoyīnrumble; noise; static (in a signal)
语音yǔyīnspeech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message
口音kǒuyīnoral speech sounds (linguistics)
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