Chinese symbol for “vibrato”
颤音
chàn yīn
Traditional: 顫音
vibrato (of stringed instrument); trill (in phonetics)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for vibrato is 颤音 (chàn yīn), defined as: vibrato (of stringed instrument); trill (in phonetics).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 颤音.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颤抖 (顫抖) | chàn dǒu | to shudder; to shiver |
| 震颤 (震顫) | zhèn chàn | to tremble; to quiver |
| 颤动 (顫動) | chàn dòng | to vibrate; to quiver |
| 颤栗 (顫慄) | zhàn lì | variant of 战栗 (zhàn lì) |
| 打颤 (打顫) | dǎ zhàn | to shiver; to tremble |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “vibrato”.
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.