ˇㄧㄣyīn

  1. 中國聲樂音階

  2. 音韻學聲母發音部位劃分

five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la, five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]