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陰

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See also: 阴, 隂, and 侌
陰 U+9670, 陰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9670
← 陯
[U+966F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 陱 →
[U+9671]

Translingual

Han character

陰 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中人戈戈 (NLOII), four-corner 78231, composition ⿰阝侌)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1353, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41691
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1855, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4138, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9670
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 陰, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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According to Shuowen, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qrɯm): semantic 阜 + phonetic 侌 (yīn).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r(u/i)m (“dark; shade; dusk; twilight”); compare Tibetan རུམ (rum, “darkness”), Jingpho rim (“to be dusk”) (Benedict, 1972; Bodman, 1980; STEDT).

Schuessler (2007) compares it instead to Burmese အုံ့ (um., “to become overcast”), Adi mugyum (“shade; shadow”), Lepcha ᰠᰨᰌᰤᰪᰮ (so-dyŭm, “shade”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • im - literary;
  • iam - vernacular (limited, e.g. 半陰陽).
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Definitions

陰

  1. cloudy; overcast; gloomy
    陰暗／阴暗  ―  yīn'àn  ―  dark; gloomy
    天陰了。／天阴了。  ―  Tiān yīn le.  ―  The sky is overcast.
    陰轉晴／阴转晴  ―  yīn zhuǎn qíng  ―  cloudy to fine
  2. hidden; secret
    陽奉陰違／阳奉阴违  ―  yángfèngyīnwéi  ―  to overtly agree but covertly oppose; to comply in public but oppose in private
  3. negative
    陰極／阴极  ―  yīnjí  ―  cathode
    陰離子／阴离子  ―  yīnlízǐ  ―  anion; negative ion
  4. the Moon
    太陰／太阴  ―  tàiyīn  ―  moon
    陰曆／阴历  ―  yīnlì  ―  lunar calendar
  5. shade; shadow
    樹陰／树阴  ―  shùyīn  ―  shade of a tree
    背陰／背阴  ―  bèiyīn  ―  to be in the shade
  6. north of a mountain or south of a river
    山陰／山阴  ―  shānyīn  ―  northern side of a mountain
    江陰／江阴  ―  Jiāngyīn  ―  Jiangyin (a county situated on the south side of the Yangtze River)
  7. back side
    碑陰／碑阴  ―  bēiyīn  ―  posterior of a stele
  8. of the nether world; of ghosts
    陰間／阴间  ―  yīnjiān  ―  afterworld; netherworld
    陰陽相隔／阴阳相隔  ―  yīnyáng xiànggé  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  9. (philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang
  10. in intaglio
    陰文／阴文  ―  yīnwén  ―  intagliated characters or designs
  11. treacherous; deceitful; cheating
    陰險／阴险  ―  yīnxiǎn  ―  treacherous
    好哇，你敢跟我玩兒陰的！ [MSC, trad.]
    好哇，你敢跟我玩儿阴的！ [MSC, simp.]
    Hǎo wa, nǐ gǎn gēn wǒ wánr yīn de! [Pinyin]
    Fine, you dare play dirty with me!
  12. (dialectal) to deceive; to trick; to trap
    我今兒個讓人給陰了。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    我今儿个让人给阴了。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]
    Wǒ jīnrge ràng rén gěi yīn le. [Pinyin]
    Today I have been tricked by someone.
  13. (Chinese phonetics, of a syllable) open; not having a consonant coda
  14. (Cantonese) bangs; fringe
    alt. forms: 𩬎
    齊陰／齐阴 [Cantonese]  ―  cai4 jam1 [Jyutping]  ―  blunt bangs
  15. genitalia (of humans)
    陰道／阴道  ―  yīndào  ―  vagina
    外陰／外阴  ―  wàiyīn  ―  vulva
  16. a surname

Antonyms

See also

More information 平仄 (píngzè), 四角標調法 / 四角标调法 ...
More information 四聲 / 四声 (sìshēng) ...

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Tai: *rɤmᴮ (“shade”)
    • Thai: ร่ม (rôm, “shade, umbrella, parachute”)

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