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音 おと N4

  1. noise; sound
  2. (musical) note
  3. fame

音 おん N3

  1. noise; sound
  2. (speech) sound
  3. Chinese-derived reading of a kanji

音 ね N3

  1. chirp; note; ring; sound; tone

音楽 おんがく N5

  1. music

音色 ねいろ N1

  1. timbre; tone color; tone colour; tone quality

音声 おんせい

  1. sound of a voice; speech; voice
  2. sound (e.g. of a TV)

音楽家 おんがくか

  1. musician

音痴 おんち

  1. amusia; having no ear for music; tone deafness
  2. -illiterate; being hopeless when it comes to (e.g. computers); having no sense of (e.g. direction)

音程 おんてい

  1. interval; step
  2. key; pitch

音符 おんぷ

  1. musical note; note symbol
  2. phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
  3. part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning)
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