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音高 (yīn gāo) — (music) pitch; (linguistics) pitch, tone height

Definition

Literally 'sound height' — the perceived highness or lowness of a tone, used in both music (melodic pitch) and Chinese linguistics (how high or low a tone is produced).

noun
(music) pitch(linguistics) pitchtone height

Examples

  • 音高。
    Zhè shǒu gē de yīn gāo biàn huà hěn dà.
    The pitch of this song varies a lot.
  • 音高。
    Hàn yǔ de shēng diào yóu yīn gāo jué dìng.
    The tones of Chinese are determined by pitch.
  • 音高。
    Tā chàng gē shí yīn gāo hěn zhǔn.
    His pitch is very accurate when he sings.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

音yīnsound
高gāohigh

音 is sound and 高 is high, giving the height of a sound.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

音 adds a short stroke that seals the mouth-like part, showing a covered or muffled sound rather than speech.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

高 was drawn as a tall building.

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