阴 meaning and pronunciation

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阴 English definition

yīn

  • overcast (weather)
  • cloudy
  • shady
  • Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)
  • negative (electric.)
  • feminine
  • moon
  • implicit
  • hidden
  • genitalia

HSK levels


Characters with the same pronunciation

  • : mute;
  • : 𣪊
  • : cause; reason; because;
  • : to restrain; to dam a stream and change its direction; a mound;
  • : bury; mound; to dam; close;
  • : marriage connections;
  • : peaceful; solemn;
  • : solicitous;
  • : generative forces; magic emanation;
  • : to soak; to blotch; to splotch;
  • : used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture;
  • : mute;
  • : sacrifice;
  • : a kind of bamboo; old variant of 茵[yin1];
  • : generative force; magic emanation;
  • : mattress;
  • : mat; underclothing;
  • : indium (chemistry);
  • : inner gates;
  • : sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character);
  • : iron-gray (horse);

Sentences examples with 阴

  • 今天天气晴/阴。
    Jīntiān tiānqì qíng/yīn.
  • 今天是阴天。
    Jīntiān shì yīn tiān.

Words containing 阴, by HSK level