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Chinese symbol for “tremolo”

震音
zhèn yīn
(music) tremolo

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tremolo is 震音 (zhèn yīn), defined as: (music) tremolo.

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Characters and stroke order

震 zhèn
shake, quake, tremor; to excite
radical 173 ⾬ · 15 strokes
音 yīn
sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
radical 180 ⾳ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 震音.

WordPinyinMeaning
地震dì zhènearthquake
震惊 (震驚)zhèn jīngto shock; to astonish
震撼zhèn hànto shake; to shock
震动 (震動)zhèn dòngto shake; to vibrate
震荡 (震盪)zhèn dàngto shake up; to jolt
音乐 (音樂)yīn yuèmusic; 张 (zhāng),曲 (qǔ),段 (duàn)
声音 (聲音)shēng yīnsound; voice
语音 (語音)yǔ yīnspeech sounds; pronunciation

See also: Japanese symbol for “tremolo”.

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.