音浪

yīnlàng

noun

Meanings

1 sound wave; pounding music
2 (Douyin) virtual currency earned by streamers from gifts

Characters

Examples

HSK 3

她直播一晚上收了几万音浪。

Tā zhíbō yī wǎnshang shōu le jǐ wàn yīnlàng.

She earned tens of thousands of 'sound wave' points from a single night of streaming.

HSK 7-9

夜店的音浪震耳欲聋。

Yèdiàn de yīnlàng zhèn'ěr-yùlóng.

The club's music was deafening.

Tips

culture

On Douyin (TikTok's Chinese version), 音浪 is the points streamers accumulate when viewers send gifts; 10 音浪 roughly equals 1 yuan in platform payouts. The term spread from the 2000s club song 音浪 by Huang Lixing (黄立行).

Stroke Order

音 yīn

浪 làng