Chinese Notes

阴 (陰) yīn

yīn adjective cloudy / overcast
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , Concept: Weather 天气
Notes: (XHZD '阴' 2, p. 895)
yīn noun Yin
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Culture
Notes: The negative principle of 阴阳 Yin and Yang (XHZD '阴' 3, p. 895)
yīn noun negative
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adj 4; XHZD '阴' 3, p. 895)
yīn noun female principle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 7; Kroll 2015 '陰' 4, p. 554; Unihan '陰')
yīn noun northside of a hill / the southside of a river
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 1; Kroll 2015 '陰' 2, p. 554)
yīn adjective shady
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 1, p. 554; XHZD '阴' 4, p. 895)
yīn noun reproductive organ / genitals
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Biology
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 6; Kroll 2015 '陰' 6, p. 554; XHZD '阴' 7, p. 895)
yīn noun the backside
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 后面 (Guoyu '陰' n 3; XHZD '阴' 5, p. 895)
yīn noun a dark place / darkness
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 2; Kroll 2015 '陰' 1a, p. 554)
yīn proper noun Yin
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 8)
yīn noun the moon
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 月亮 (Guoyu '陰' n 5)
yīn noun a shadow
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 日影 (Guoyu '陰' n 4; Kroll 2015 '陰' 1, p. 554)
yīn adjective feminine
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adj 5)
yīn adjective sinister / insidious
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 险诈 (Guoyu '陰' adj 3; XHZD '阴' 6, p. 895)
yīn adjective supernatural
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Relating to ghosts or demons (Guoyu '陰' adj 6)
yīn adjective secretly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adv; Kroll 2015 '陰' 5, p. 554)
yīn adjective dark
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 黑暗 (Guoyu '陰' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '陰' 1a, p. 554; Unihan '陰'; XHZD '阴' 1, p. 895)
yīn adjective secret
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 祕密的 (Guoyu '陰' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '陰' 5, p. 554; Unihan '陰')
yìn verb to cover / to hide from view / to obstruct
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 遮蔽 (Guoyu '陰' yìn v 1; Kroll 2015 '陰' yìn 2, p. 554)
yìn verb to bury
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 埋藏 (Guoyu '陰' yìn v 2)
yīn adjective cold
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 3, p. 554)
yīn verb to weaken / to decline
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 3a, p. 554)
yīn noun broken lines in a hexagram
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 4a, p. 554)
yīn verb to suggest
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 5a, p. 554)
yīn noun an aggregate / a group
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 7, p. 554)
yìn verb to protect / to shelter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' yìn 1, p. 554)

Contained in

革兰氏阴性(革蘭氏陰性) Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
阴险毒辣(陰險毒辣) treacherous and murderous
无心插柳柳成阴(無心插柳柳成陰) idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you
阴精(陰精) sex fluids
阴森(陰森) gloomy / sinister / eerie
有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴(有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰) you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / things do not always turn out as one would expect
阴间使人(陰間使人) sent a person in secret
阴阳怪气(陰陽怪氣) eccentric / peculiar / mystifying
舔阴(舔陰) cunnilingus
露阴癖(露陰癖) indecent exposure / flashing
阴沉沉(陰沉沉) dark (weather, mood)
交叉阴影线(交叉陰影線) hatched lines / cross-hatched graphic pattern
阴云(陰雲) dark cloud
阴谋论(陰謀論) conspiracy theory
阴道(陰道) vagina
阴阜(陰阜) mons veneris
阴蒂(陰蒂) clitoris
阴司纸(陰司紙) joss paper
阴司(陰司) hell / nether world
阴曹地府(陰曹地府) netherworld / Kingdom of the Underworld
阴柔(陰柔) gentle and reserved / soft / feminine
阴屁(陰屁) queef
贵阳而贱阴(貴陽而賤陰) prefer sunny [places] to dark
煽阴风(煽陰風) to raise an ill wind
阴天(陰天) cloudy day / overcast sky
阴线(陰線) to incise / to engrave
阴凉(陰涼) shady
卡到阴(卡到陰) to be possessed / to be bewitched
阴谋诡计(陰謀詭計) crafty plots and machinations
阴唇(陰唇) labia
阴谋颠覆政府罪(陰謀顛覆政府罪) the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government
阴谋家(陰謀家) schemer / conspirator
阴暗(陰暗) dim / dark
阴极射线管(陰極射線管) cathode ray tube
阴司钱(陰司錢) joss paper
阴宅(陰宅) tomb ; a tomb
阴虚火旺(陰虛火旺) an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy
阴凉处(陰涼處) shady place
阴阳合同(陰陽合同) a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table yin contract
阴离子(陰離子) negative ion / anion
阴部(陰部) genitalia

Also contained in

五阴譬喻经、阴平、识阴、阴性名词、阴入、阴界、阴魔、山阴县、华阴县、苦阴经

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Truncated for common words

卷五十二志第五天文五 Volume 52 Treatises 5: Astronomy 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 62
卷十二陰陽終始第四十八陰陽義第四十九陰陽出入上下第五十天道無二第五十一暖燠常多第五十二基義第五十三第五十四　Scroll 12 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 55
Full Text Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經 — count: 51
卷二十一　趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 48
卷五中山經 Chapter 5: Classic of the Mountains - Central Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 45
卷十一為人者天第四十一五行之義第四十二陽尊陰卑第四十三王道通三第四十四天容第四十五天辨在人第四十六陰陽位第四十七　Scroll 11 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 43
卷六十八志第二十一律曆一 Volume 68 Treatises 21: Measures and Calendar 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 37
卷二十九志第十九五行下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Five Elements Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 36
《扁鵲倉公列傳》 Biographies of Bian Que and the Duke of Cang Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 30
卷十上皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 29

Collocations

阴雨 (陰雨) 陰雨膏之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧曹‧下泉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Bu Quan — count: 6
龟阴 (龜陰) 龜陰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 4
阴里 (陰裡) 王使陰里逆之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
阴地 (陰地) 遂自陰地 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3
谓阴 (謂陰) 使謂陰地之命大夫士蔑曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 3
阴事 (陰事) 陰事不得 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《昏義》 The Meaning of the Marriage Ceremony — count: 3
阴礼教 (陰禮教) 以陰禮教六宮 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 3
阴王 (陰王) 陰王之國有三 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重甲第八十 Chapter 80: Weight I — count: 3
阴厌 (陰厭) 有陰厭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 3
处阴 (處陰) 夏處陰 — Guanzi 管子, 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He — count: 2