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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

互音

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hù yīn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Huyin/huːˈjɪn/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"汉字互音研究有助于了解古代语音。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A traditional Chinese system of phonological classification used in historical lexicography to describe the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

    "Scholars analyzed the historical huyin tables to reconstruct Middle Chinese phonology."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese term 'húyīn' (糊音), composed of 'hú' (muffled, blurred) and 'yin' (sound, voice). The term originates in phonetics and acoustic engineering to describe indistinct or muffled vocal articulation.

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