音色

Chinese

		sound; noise; news	color; dice; look color; dice; look; appearance
simp. and trad. (音色)		音	色

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yīnsè

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄣㄙㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹ sik¹
Min Nan (POJ): im-siak / im-sek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yīnsè
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄣㄙㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yinsè
  - Wade–Giles: yin¹-sê⁴
  - Yale: yīn-sè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: inseh
  - Palladius: иньсэ (inʹsɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ sɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jam¹ sik¹
  - Yale: yām sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: yem¹ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im-siak
  - Tâi-lô: im-siak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: imsiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /im³³ ɕiak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im-sek
  - Tâi-lô: im-sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: imseg
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /im⁴⁴⁻³³ ɕiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /im⁴⁴⁻²² ɕiɪk̚³²/

Noun

音色

(music) timbre

Japanese

Kanji in this term
音	色
おん Grade: 1	しょく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Kanji in this term
音	色
ね Grade: 1	いろ Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compare German Klangfarbe (literally “sound-color”) and English tone color.

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi

(Tokyo) ねいろ [nèíró] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
IPA^(key): [ne̞iɾo̞]

On’yomi

(Tokyo) おんしょく [òńshókú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
(Tokyo) おんしょく [óꜜǹshòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
IPA^(key): [õ̞ɰ̃ɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

音(ね)色(いろ) or 音(おん)色(しょく) • (neiro or onshoku)

timbre
バイオリンの音(ね)色(いろ)
baiorin no neiro
the sound of a violin
- 林芙美子, 『鶴の笛』
  すると、しばらくして、何(なん)ともいえない美(うつく)しい笛(ふえ)の音(ね)色(いろ)がきこえました。
  Suru to, shibarakushite, nan to mo ienai utsukushii fue no neiro ga kikoemashita.
  But then, for a moment, the beautiful sound of a flute could be heard.

Usage notes

onshoku is preferred in the field of music, while neiro is the informal, more loosely-used term.

References

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
音	色

Noun

音色 • (eumsaek) (hangeul 음색)

Hanja form^? of 음색 (“timbre”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
音	色

Noun

音色

chữ Hán form of âm sắc (“timbre”).

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