听话听声, 锣鼓听音 | tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn | to understand the unspoken implications (idiom) |
| 背景音乐 | bèi jǐng yīn yuè | background music (BGM); soundtrack; musical setting |
| 胸音 | xiōng yīn | chest voice |
| 舌尖前音 | shé jiān qián yīn | alveolar; consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge |
| 舌尖后音 | shé jiān hòu yīn | retroflex; consonants zh, ch, sh, r produced on the back of the tongue |
| 舌尖音 | shé jiān yīn | apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t) |
| 舌尖颤音 | shé jiān chàn yīn | alveolar trill (e.g. Russian r sound) |
| 舒适音 | shū shì yīn | comfortable voice (well within one's range of pitch) |
| 舞台音乐 | wǔ tái yīn yuè | musical theater |
| 若望福音 | Ruò wàng fú yīn | Gospel according to St John |
| 华纳音乐集团 | Huà nà yīn yuè jí tuán | Warner music |
| 号音 | hào yīn | bugle call |
| 表音 | biǎo yīn | phonetic; phonological; transliteration |
| 袖珍音响 | xiù zhēn yīn xiǎng | pocket stereo; walkman |
| 补足音程 | bǔ zú yīn chéng | complementary interval; addition musical interval adding to an octave |
| 复合元音 | fù hé yuán yīn | diphthong (such as putonghua ɑi, uei etc) |
| 复合母音 | fù hé mǔ yīn | diphthong; compound vowel |
| 复音形 | fù yīn xíng | diphthong; liaison |
| 观世音 | Guān shì yīn | Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara) |
| 观世音菩萨 | Guān shì yīn Pú sà | Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara) |
| 观音菩萨 | Guān yīn Pú sà | Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara) |
| 观音乡 | Guān yīn xiāng | Guanyin or Kuanyin township in Taoyuan county 桃园县, north Taiwan |
| 训民正音 | Xùn mín Zhèng yīn | Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul |
| 注音法 | zhù yīn fǎ | phonetic transcription; system of representing spoken sounds |
| 语音信箱 | yǔ yīn xìn xiāng | voice mailbox |
| 语音信号 | yǔ yīn xìn hào | voice signal |
| 语音合成 | yǔ yīn hé chéng | speech synthesis |
| 语音失语症 | yǔ yīn shī yǔ zhèng | phonetic aphasia |
| 语音学 | yǔ yīn xué | phonetics |
| 语音意识 | yǔ yīn yì shí | phonetic awareness |
| 语音技巧 | yǔ yīn jì qiǎo | phonological skill |
| 语音指令 | yǔ yīn zhǐ lìng | speech command (for computer speech recognition) |
| 语音识别 | yǔ yīn shí bié | speech recognition |
| 语音通讯通道 | yǔ yīn tōng xùn tōng dào | voice (communications) channel |
| 谐音 | xié yīn | homonym; homophone; harmonic (component of sound) |
| 谐音列 | xié yīn liè | harmonic series |
| 读音 | dú yīn | pronunciation; reading of word |
| 读音错误 | dú yīn cuò wù | mistake of pronunciation |
| 走音 | zǒu yīn | off-key; out of tune (music) |
| 超音波 | chāo yīn bō | ultrasound; ultrasonic wave |
| 路加福音 | Lù jiā fú yīn | Gospel according to St Luke |
| 软龈音 | ruǎn yín yīn | velar sound (linguistics) |
| 辅音 | fǔ yīn | consonant |
| 辅音释放时间 | fǔ yīn shì fàng shí jiān | voice onset time |
| 轻音乐 | qīng yīn yuè | light music |
| 逆回音 | nì huí yīn | inverted turn (ornament in music) |
| 通用拼音 | tōng yòng pīn yīn | the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003 |
| 边音 | biān yīn | lateral (sound) |
| 乡音 | xiāng yīn | local accent; accent of one's native place |
| 配音 | pèi yīn | dubbing (filmmaking) |