| 八音 | bā yīn | music; (used in advertising instrumental tuition); (archaic) musical instruments made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) |
| 八音盒 | bā yīn hé | musical box |
| 分音符 | fēn yīn fú | dieresis; umlaut; diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables |
| 切音 | qiè yīn | to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words |
| 前词典语音加工 | qián cí diǎn yǔ yīn jiā gōng | prelexical phonology |
| 前词汇语音加工 | qián cí huì yǔ yīn jiā gōng | pre-lexical phonological processing |
| 前鼻音 | qián bí yīn | alveolar nasal; consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridge |
| 北京音 | Běi jīng yīn | Beijing pronunciation |
| 半音程 | bàn yīn chéng | semitone |
| 印度音乐 | Yìn dù yīn yuè | Bhangra, Indian music (music genre) |
| 卷舌元音 | juǎn shé yuán yīn | retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua) |
| 古典音乐 | gǔ diǎn yīn yuè | classical music |
| 可读音性 | kě dú yīn xìng | pronounceability |
| 合成语音 | hé chéng yǔ yīn | assembled phonology |
| 同音 | tóng yīn | unison; homophone |
| 同音字 | tóng yīn zì | homophonic characters |
| 同音词 | tóng yīn cí | homophonic words |
| 吸音 | xī yīn | sound-absorbing |
| 喉塞音 | hóu sè yīn | glottal stop |
| 喉擦音 | hóu cā yīn | guttural fricative |
| 单音节 | dān yīn jié | monosyllabic; a monosyllable |
| 单音词 | dān yīn cí | monosyllabic word |
| 噪音盒 | zào yīn hé | boombox; ghetto blaster |
国语注音符号第一
式 | Guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì | Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan); Bopomofo; abbr. to 注音一式 |
| 国际音标 | guó jì yīn biāo | international phonetic alphabet |
| 塞音 | sè yīn | plosive; stop consonant |
| 多音 | duō yīn | polyphony |
| 多音多义字 | duō yīn duō yì zì | character having several readings and meanings |
| 多音字 | duō yīn zì | character having several reading |
| 多音节词 | duō yīn jié cí | polysyllabic word; Chinese word made up of three or more characters |
| 威妥玛拼音 | Wēi tuǒ mǎ pīn yīn | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) |
| 威氏注音法 | Wēi shì zhù yīn fǎ | Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese |
| 威玛拼音 | Wēi mǎ pīn yīn | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) |
| 子音 | zǐ yīn | consonant |
| 定音 | dìng yīn | to call the tune; to make the final decision |
| 定音鼓 | dìng yīn gǔ | timpani |
| 实况录音 | shí kuàng lù yīn | live recording |
| 尾音 | wěi yīn | final sound of a syllable; rhyme (e.g. in European languages) |
| 巴音布克草原 | Bā yīn bù kè cǎo yuán | Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains |
| 巴音满都呼 | Bā yīn mǎn dū hū | Bayan Mandahu, village in Bayan Nur 巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia, noted for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils |
| 巴音郭愣州 | Bā yīn guō lèng zhōu | abbr. for Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang; abbr. for 巴音郭愣蒙古自治州 |
巴音郭愣蒙古自治
州 | Bā yīn guō lèng Měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu | Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang |
巴音郭楞蒙古自治
州 | Bā yīn guō léng Měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu | Bayin'guoleng Mongol autonomous prefecture of Xinjiang |
| 平舌音 | píng shé yīn | alveolar; consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge |
| 弦外之音 | xián wài zhī yīn | overtone (idiom); meaning beyond the words; implied meaning; reading between the lines |
| 弱音踏板 | ruò yīn tà bǎn | soft pedal (on piano); una corda pedal |
| 强音踏板 | qiáng yīn tà bǎn | loud pedal (on piano); sustaining pedal |
| 影音 | yǐng yīn | recorded media (CD and DVD); sound and movies |
| 后鼻音 | hòu bí yīn | velar nasal; consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate |
| 心音 | xīn yīn | sound of the heart; heartbeat |
