Chinese symbol for “tenor”

男高音

nán gāo yīn

tenor (singing voice); a tenor

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tenor is 男高音 (nán gāo yīn), defined as: tenor (singing voice); a tenor.

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Characters and stroke order

男 nán

man, boy; male; baron; surname

radical 102 ⽥ · 7 strokes

高 gāo

tall, lofty; high, elevated

radical 189 ⾼ · 10 strokes

音 yīn

sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation

radical 180 ⾳ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 男高音.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
男人	nán rén	a man; a male
男子	nán zǐ	a man; a male
男性	nán xìng	the male sex; a male
男女	nán nǚ	male-female; male and female
男孩	nán hái	boy
男朋友	nán péng you	boyfriend
最高	zuì gāo	tallest; highest
提高	tí gāo	to raise; to increase
音乐 (音樂)	yīn yuè	music; 张 (zhāng),曲 (qǔ),段 (duàn)

See also: Japanese symbol for “tenor”.

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.