Chinese symbol for “phoneme”
音位
yīn wèi
phoneme
The closest CC-CEDICT match for phoneme is 音位 (yīn wèi), defined as: phoneme.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “phoneme”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 音位.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 音乐 (音樂) | yīn yuè | music; 张 (zhāng),曲 (qǔ),段 (duàn) |
| 声音 (聲音) | shēng yīn | sound; voice |
| 语音 (語音) | yǔ yīn | speech sounds; pronunciation |
| 录音 (錄音) | lù yīn | to record sound; an audio recording (CL:段 (duàn)) |
| 影音 | yǐng yīn | (Tw) audio and video; audiovisual |
| 音乐会 (音樂會) | yīn yuè huì | concert; 场 (chǎng) |
| 单位 (單位) | dān wèi | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole) |
| 位于 (位於) | wèi yú | to be located at; to be situated at |
See also: Japanese symbol for “phoneme”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.