Ideographic: A tongue 立 forming a sound in the mouth 日Radical:

meaning for yīn:

  • - sound
  • - noise
  • - note (of musical scale)
  • - tone
  • - news
  • - syllable
  • - reading (phonetic value of a character)voice
  • - sound
  • - Classifiers: 个 music
  • - Classifiers: 张 concert
  • - Classifiers: 场 audio and video
  • - audiovisualspeech sounds
  • - pronunciation
  • - colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
  • - phonetic
  • - audio
  • - voice
  • - (Internet) to voice chat
  • - voice message