声音 (shēng yīn)

Character breakdown

• 声 (shēng) · 7 strokes

  Remnant of the character 殸 (stone chimes). Depicts a musical stone chime hung up on a rope. Simplified form of 聲.

• 音 (yīn) · 9 strokes

  Originally the same as 言 (speech) but with an extra line added in the mouth (口) to distinguish the two characters.