读音 (dú yīn) — pronunciation (of a character or word, especially in reading context); literary reading of a Chinese character (vs. colloquial pronunciation)
Definition
The reading of a Chinese character or word, often used when contrasting a literary (文言) pronunciation with the modern spoken one. 发音 is the everyday 'pronunciation,' while 语音 leans toward 'phonetics / audio.'
noun
pronunciation (of a character or word, especially in reading context)literary reading of a Chinese character (vs. colloquial pronunciation)
Examples
- 读音“”“”？Zhè ge zì de dú yīn shì "zhāng" hái shì "cháng"?Is the pronunciation of this character zhāng or cháng?
- 读音。Wén yán wén lǐ hěn duō zì dōu yǒu liǎng zhǒng dú yīn.In classical Chinese, many characters have two readings.
- 準读音。Lǎo shī ràng wǒ men chá yí xià zhè ge zì de biāo zhǔn dú yīn.The teacher asked us to look up the standard pronunciation of this character.
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