Today’s second #kanji is #音, which is made of 立 (to stand) and 日 (the Sun), but 音 is classified as a logogram and it makes its own radical. There are 4 ways to read this character.
Meaning: sound, voice
Reading: オン、イン、おと、ね
音楽（オンガク）: music
音信（オンシン）: contact, word, communication
音読（オンドク）する: to read aloud
発音（ハツオン）: pronunciation, enunciation, sound production
母音（ボイン）: a vowel (sound)
子音（シイン）: a consonant (sound)
福音（フクイン）: the (Christian) gospel, good news
音（おと）: (a) sound, a noise, a report
足音（あしおと）: the sound of footsteps, a footstep
音色（ねいろ/オンショク）: a tone , a tonal quality, tone colour, timbre
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