Taxonomy of meanings for 囂:　　

Additional information about 囂

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• CLAMOUR
  

  1. The standard word for communal clamouring by a group, often expressive of dissatisfaction, is huá 嘩 / 譁.

  2. Xiāo 囂 emphasises the loudness of the communal din, and the word is current as a reduplicated binome.

  3. Huān 讙 is an onomatopoetic word suggesting gleeful clamour and jubilation.

  4. Zào 噪 refers to noisiness of a flock of birds or a crowd, and written with the speech radical 譟 currently refers to the clamour of a crowd.

• SOUND
  

  1. The dominant word for any sound produced by any creature or instrument is shēng 聲 and the word can come to refer specifically to the sound produced by the human voice (see VOICE), hence the word can also refer to a song with a melody and also to the tones as making up a melody. See SONG.

  2. Yīn 音 is much narrower in application, and more elevated in style, and the word typically applies to sound shaped into music or the like and often viewed as an aesthetic object. 聲成文謂之音。 "When sound makes a pattern it becomes yīn", true enough, but it does remain shēng 聲 also.

  3. Xiāo 囂 and xuān 喧 refer primarily to the din of human voices, but these words do have regular extended uses where they refer to any noisy or irritating sound.

  4. Xiǎng 響, which primarily means "echo", often comes to refer to any sound without any connotations concerning the irritating nature of the sound.

• SILENCE
  

  1. The current word for the failure of humans to speak where they might be expected to speak is mò 默 (ant. yán 言 "speak up").

  2. Jìng 靜 (ant. xiāo 囂 "noisy") is a strongly positively loaded term which refers with approval to the pleasing absence of sound in a natural environment and does not refer to the failure of humans to produce sounds or speak.

  3. Jì 寂 (ant. xī rang 熙嚷 "be busy and noisy") is a negatively laden term describing the absence of sound as something making a place desolate.