五音
wǔ yīn
Pinyin

Definition

五音
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wǔ yīn
  1. five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
  2. five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hóu yīn], 牙音[yá yīn], 舌音[shé yīn], 齒音|齿音[chǐ yīn], 唇音[chún yīn]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

五
wǔ
  1. 1 five
  2. 2 5
第五
dì wǔ
  1. 1 fifth
声音
shēng yīn
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 sound
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
音乐
yīn yuè
  1. 1 music
  2. 2 classifier: 张 zhāng
  3. 3 classifier: 曲 qǔ
  4. 4 classifier: 段 duàn
三五
sān wǔ
  1. 1 several
  2. 2 three or five

Idioms (20)

一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
三五成群
sān wǔ chéng qún
  1. 1 in groups of three or four (idiom)
三令五申
sān lìng wǔ shēn
  1. 1 to order again and again (idiom)
三番五次
sān fān wǔ cì
  1. 1 over and over again (idiom)
三纲五常
sān gāng wǔ cháng
  1. 1 three principles and five virtues (idiom)
  2. 2 the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)