音阶 (音階)
yīn jiē
Pinyin

Definition

音阶 (音階)
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yīn jiē
  1. musical scale

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

声音
shēng yīn
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 sound
  3. 3 classifier: 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 classifier: 张 zhāng
  3. 3 classifier: 曲 qǔ
  4. 4 classifier: 段 duàn
五音不全
wǔ yīn bù quán
  1. 1 tone deaf
  2. 2 unable to sing in tune

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

对了，真聪明。那刚才大家弹了哆来咪发嗦啦希哆，这一系列音呢，叫音阶。因为从C音开始的，所以也叫C大调音阶。好，接下去大家自己练习，然后我们开始讲怎样识五线谱。
duì le ，zhēn cōngming 。nà gāngcái dàjiā tán le duō lái mǐ fā suō lā xī duō ，zhè yī xìliè yīn ne ，jiào yīnjiē 。yīnwèi cóng C yīn kāishǐ de ，suǒyǐ yě jiào C dàdiào yīnjiē 。hǎo ，jiē xiàqu dàjiā zìjǐ liànxí ，ránhòu wǒmen kāishǐ jiǎng zěnyàng shí wǔxiànpǔ 。
That's right. You're so smart. Well, everyone just played 'Do Ra Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do'. This series of notes is called a scale. Because it starts at the C note, it's also called the C Major scale. OK, next, everyone will practice alone. Afterward, we'll start talking about how to recognize a 'staff'.
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