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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 五音

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
五音 wǔ yīn - five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
- five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 36,122 70,514 54,491

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
五 wǔ- five
- 5
音 yīn- sound
- noise
- note (of musical scale)
- tone
- news
- syllable
- reading (phonetic value of a character)

Other Words Containing 五音

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
五音 - - 36,122 70,514 54,491