Chinese symbol for “stereo”

音响设备

yīn xiǎng shè bèi

Traditional: 音響設備

sound equipment; stereo

The closest CC-CEDICT match for stereo is 音响设备 (yīn xiǎng shè bèi), defined as: sound equipment; stereo.

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Characters and stroke order

音 yīn

sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation

radical 180 ⾳ · 9 strokes

响 xiǎng

to make noise, to make sound; sound

radical 30 ⼝ · 9 strokes

设 shè

to build, to design; to establish; to offer

radical 149 ⾔ · 6 strokes

备 bèi

to prepare; to get ready, to equip; ready; perfect

radical 34 ⼡ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 音响设备.

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)
影响 (影響)	yǐng xiǎng	influence; effect
影响力 (影響力)	yǐng xiǎng lì	influence; impact
建设 (建設)	jiàn shè	to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
准备 (準備)	zhǔn bèi	preparation; to prepare

See also: Japanese symbol for “stereo”.

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.