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定音
dìng​yīn

to set the tone

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
定音 dìng//yīn
to set the tone
To set the tone or determine the pitch of a sound.
to make a final decision
To make a final decision about something; to have the final say, often used in the phrase 一锤定音 yī​chuí​dìng​yīn

Frequency

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0.179 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)