牙音

yáyīn
velar consonants of Middle Chinese

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 牙 yá
  1. tooth
  2. ivory

classifier: 顆
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)