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口音

kǒu yin

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

口音 (kǒu yīn) means "oral speech sounds (linguistics); voice; accent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 口音 means

1. voice
2. accent

Other readings

口音 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• kǒu yīnoral speech sounds

The characters in 口音

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)

Example sentences

• 他的口音！
  His accent!
• 我有什幺口音？
  What accent have I got?
• 你说话带口音吗？
  Do you speak with an accent?
• 汤姆讲话不带口音。
  Tom speaks without an accent.
• 他说英语有德国口音。
  Tā shuō Yīngyǔ yǒu Déguó kǒuyīn.
  He speaks English with a German accent.
• 他有一口有趣的口音。
  He had a funny accent.

Where 口音 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kǒng–kǒu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǒu yin correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.