音
This character means ‘sound,’ and is pronounced ON or oto in Japanese and yīn in Chinese.
The upper portion looks like the character for ‘to stand’
立, 
(archaic),
(archaic),
but here it doesn’t mean that. Instead it means either a tongue sticking out of a mouth
日
(a character that now also means ‘sun, day’),
or it represents a man, who may be upside-down, based on the archaic character,
,
who is talking to you with his mouth and, thus, making sounds.
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