No. 701 in Japanese
音
"Sound" or "noise."
In a sentence
静かな部屋の中で、小さな音が聞こえた。
In the quiet room, I heard a faint sound.
The word "音" here refers to a sound or noise that is audible in a specific environment.
彼女のピアノの音はとても美しい。
The sound of her piano playing is very beautiful.
The word "音" in this context describes the tones or sounds produced by a musical instrument.
音声学では、言葉の構成要素である『音』について学ぶ。
In phonetics, we study the 'sounds' that are the building blocks of speech.
Here, "音" is used in a linguistic context to mean phoneme or the basic unit of sound in language.
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