声音
shēng​yīn HSK2

voice

声音 (聲音) shēng​yīn
voice noun
the specific sound produced by a person's vocal cords when speaking or singing

我一听声音就知道是他。

wǒ yī tīng shēng​yīn jiù zhī​dào shì tā.

I knew it was him as soon as I heard his voice.

sound noun
any noise or audible vibration produced by physical objects or phenomena

电视的声音太大了，请关小一点。

diàn​shì de shēng​yīn tài dà le, qǐng guān xiǎo yī​diǎn.

The TV volume is too high; please turn it down.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
164.6 per million appears in 42% of films
Written text
118.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)