音色 (ねいろ): meaning and examples

Key takeaways

音色 (ねいろ) means tone color / sound quality / timbre.

See example sentences below.

音色 at a glance

音色

ねいろneiro

N1noun

tone color / sound quality / timbre

音色ねいろneiroN1Japanese vocabulary

Core meaning

tone color / sound quality / timbre

Example 1

ギターの音色がとてもきれいです。

Translation

The guitar's tone color is very beautiful.

Example 2

シンセサイザーの音色を変えてみよう。

Translation

Let's try changing the synthesizer's tone color.