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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǔyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔyin
    • Wade–Giles: wu³-yin¹
    • Yale: wǔ-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuuin
    • Palladius: уинь (uinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ng⁵ jam¹
    • Yale: ńgh yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

五音

1. (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)
2. (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)

 

See also

• 五宮
• 五聲