sound / timbre / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music / speech (phonetics) / Short for 字音 (jion): Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / news, tidings

sound / Short for 音読み (on'yomi): the Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / (by extension) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music

modern

modern man/person

modern language / (especially in reference to Japanese) modern Japanese; Japanese in its current form, spoken since the Meiji era and based on the Tokyo dialect

"Modern kana usage", the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform. Unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting modern language with little ambiguity.

Modern English

a play focusing on modern events and issues from World War II and up; contemporary drama, a modern play

modernization

to modernize