# 音 — Sound

Frequency rank 236 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 義 (Righteousness), less common than 頭 (Head).

- On’yomi: おん、いん
- Kun’yomi: おと、ね
- Radical: 音 Sound (Kangxi 180)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The drunk locks his knees, Stands on the bar table under that white-hot Sun coming through the skylight, and squeezes his glass until it goes off like a shot in his fist.

In words:

- 音 おと — sound,note
- 音楽 おんがく — music
- 発音 はつおん — pronunciation

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