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读音

dú yīn

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 讀音

读音 (dú yīn) means "pronunciation; literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 读音 means

1. pronunciation
2. literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

The characters in 读音

• 读dúto read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school)
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)

Example sentences

• 汤姆很喜欢读音乐。
  Tom loves studying music.
• 他去了奥地利读音乐。
  He went to Austria for the purpose of studying music.
• 为了研读音乐他去了义大利。
  Wèile yándú yīnyuè tā qù le Yìdàlì.
  He went to Italy in order to study music.

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