音节
yīn jié
Pinyin

Definition

音节
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yīn jié
  1. syllable

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

声音
shēng yīn
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 sound
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
语音
yǔ yīn
  1. 1 speech sounds
  2. 2 pronunciation
  3. 3 colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
  4. 4 phonetic
  5. 5 audio
  6. 6 voice
  7. 7 (Internet) to voice chat
  8. 8 voice message
音
yīn
  1. 1 sound
  2. 2 noise
  3. 3 note (of musical scale)
  4. 4 tone
  5. 5 news
  6. 6 syllable
  7. 7 reading (phonetic value of a character)
音乐
yīn yuè
  1. 1 music
  2. 2 CL:張|张[zhāng],曲[qǔ],段[duàn]
五音不全
wǔ yīn bù quán
  1. 1 tone deaf
  2. 2 unable to sing in tune
低音
dī yīn
  1. 1 bass
口音
kǒu yīn
  1. 1 oral speech sounds (linguistics)
嗓音
sǎng yīn
  1. 1 voice
噪音
zào yīn
  1. 1 rumble
  2. 2 noise
  3. 3 static (in a signal)
回音
huí yīn
  1. 1 echo
  2. 2 reply
  3. 3 turn (ornament in music)
定音
dìng yīn
  1. 1 to call the tune
  2. 2 to make the final decision
影音
yǐng yīn
  1. 1 recorded media (CD and DVD)
  2. 2 sound and movies
拼音
pīn yīn
  1. 1 phonetic writing
  2. 2 pinyin (Chinese romanization)
播音
bō yīn
  1. 1 to transmit
  2. 2 to broadcast
收音机
shōu yīn jī
  1. 1 radio
  2. 2 CL:臺|台[tái]
波音
Bō yīn
  1. 1 Boeing (aerospace company)
混音
hùn yīn
  1. 1 (audio) mixing
发音
fā yīn
  1. 1 to pronounce
  2. 2 pronunciation
  3. 3 to emit sound
知音
zhī yīn
  1. 1 intimate friend
  2. 2 soul mate
福音
fú yīn
  1. 1 good news
  2. 2 glad tidings
  3. 3 gospel

Idioms (3)

空谷足音
kōng gǔ zú yīn
  1. 1 the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom)
  2. 2 sth hard to come by
  3. 3 sth wonderful and rare
听话听声，锣鼓听音
tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
  1. 1 to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
余音绕梁
yú yīn rào liáng
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)

Sample Sentences

在中文里面叫“单音节”和“双音节”。
zài Zhōngwén lǐmiàn jiào “dān yīnjié ”hé “shuāng yīnjié ”。
In Chinese, they are called “dānyīnjié” and “shuāngyīnjié”.
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在中文很简单，因为“单音节”就是一个字，“双音节就是两个字。
zài Zhōngwén hěn jiǎndān ，yīnwèi “dān yīnjié ”jiùshì yī gè zì ，“shuāng yīnjié jiùshì liǎng gè zì 。
In Chinese it's very easy, because monosyllabic words have just one character, and disyllabic words have two characters.
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今天我们帮大家总结了几种方法，把单音节变成双音节。
jīntiān wǒmen bāng dàjiā zǒngjié le jǐzhǒng fāngfǎ ，bǎ dān yīnjié biànchéng shuāng yīnjié 。
Today we are going to help everyone summarize some of the different ways that a monosyllabic word becomes a disyllabic word.
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但是现代汉语一般要用双音节的词。
dànshì xiàndàihànyǔ yībān yào yòng shuāng yīnjié de cí 。
But modern Chinese usually will use disyllabic words.
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还有一个我们会给单音节的动词配一个双音节的动词。就是它们的意思完全一样。
háiyǒu yī gè wǒmen huì gěi dān yīnjié de dòngcí pèi yī gè shuāng yīnjié de dòngcí 。jiùshì tāmen de yìsi wánquán yīyàng 。
We also have collocations of monosyllabic verbs that are disyllabic verbs. The meaning is the same.
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单音节
dānyīnjié
Single syllable.
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