拟音

擬音
nǐyīn
  1. to make a sound effect
  2. sound effect
  3. (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language

CEDICT

  1. (linguistics) reconstructed pronunciation
  2. reconstructed pronunciation
  3. sound effect; foley

Wiktionary

  1. 由人造出来模彷物体、自然界所发的声音或动物的叫声。被用于电影、戏剧、广播、电视等音响效果。
  2. 声韵学上对一个已不使用的语言中，一个字的音读，按照语音系统及音变规律，进行拟测的方法，称为「拟音」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 人造出来模彷的声音（例如：物体、大自然）
  2. 对一个字的音读，按照语音系统及音变规律，进行拟测的方法

維基詞典

Entry Composition

=1 拟 nǐ
  1. doubtful
  2. suspicious
  3. variant of 拟 nǐ
  4. to emulate
  5. to imitate
=1 拟 nǐ
  1. to plan to
  2. to draft (a plan)
  3. to imitate
  4. to assess
  5. to compare
  6. pseudo-
2 音 yīn
  1. sound
  2. noise
  3. note (of musical scale)
  4. tone
  5. news
  6. syllable
  7. reading (phonetic value of a character)

Related entries

声效 shēngxiào sound effect
音效 yīnxiào sound effect
在九十年代，每台電腦都開始配備音效卡，真正開啟了 PC 遊戲的時代。

In the nineties, every computer started coming with a sound card, which really kicked off PC gaming.

Source: Tatoeba