语音 yǔyīn speech sounds
speech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message
How to remember 语音: 语 language + 音 sound = speech sounds.
Characters
How it is used
- Speech sounds / pronunciation; also a voice message - 语音清晰 (yǔyīn qīngxī) clear pronunciation; 发个语音 (fā ge yǔyīn) send a voice message.
- The 'voice message / voice chat' sense is very common in messaging apps today.
- In linguistics it's phonetics/pronunciation; distinguish from 语法 (grammar), 词汇 (vocabulary).