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基音

jī yīn

2-character word

What 基音 means

1. fundamental tone

The characters in 基音

• 基jī(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)

Sounds the same

Read jī yīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 基因gene (loanword)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī yīn correctly.
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