阴 (陰) yīn
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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) -
yìn
verb
to protect; to shelter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' yìn 1, p. 554)
Contained in
- 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
- 阴极(陰極) negative node; cathode
- 太阴(太陰) the Moon ; a lair for evil spirits ; a path within the body
- 阴阳义(陰陽義) the significance of yin and yang
- 贵阳而贱阴(貴陽而賤陰) prefer sunny [places] to dark
- 阴错阳差(陰錯陽差) due to an unexpected turn of events
- 阴凉处(陰涼處) shady place
- 煽阴风(煽陰風) to raise an ill wind
- 外阴(外陰) vulva
- 卡到阴(卡到陰) to be possessed; to be bewitched
- 考阴阳(考陰陽) to rely on yin and yang
- 阴谋作乱(陰謀作亂) to plot a revolt
- 阴间使人(陰間使人) sent a person in secret
- 阴茎套(陰莖套) condom
- 阴极射线管(陰極射線管) cathode ray tube
- 光阴似箭(光陰似箭) time flies like an arrow
- 阴司(陰司) hell; nether world
- 阴部(陰部) genitalia
- 阴虚(陰虛) deficiency of yin
- 舔阴(舔陰) cunnilingus
- 阴凉(陰涼) shady
- 阴冷(陰冷) gloomy and cold
- 阴曹地府(陰曹地府) netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld
- 阳尊阴卑(陽尊陰卑) yang is noble, yin is base
- 树阴(樹陰) shade (of a tree)
- 阴魂(陰魂) ghost; spirit
- 阴谋(陰謀) to plot; to conspire
- 格兰氏阴性(格蘭氏陰性) Gram negative (of bacteria)
- 背阴(背陰) in the shade; shady
- 爱惜光阴(愛惜光陰) care for time
- 阴曹(陰曹) hell
- 阴笑(陰笑) to laugh evilly
- 沉阴(沉陰) dark weather; a long spell of rainy weather
- 阴谋论(陰謀論) conspiracy theory
- 阴户(陰戶) vulva
- 阴差阳错(陰差陽錯) due to an unexpected turn of events
- 阴霾(陰霾) haze
- 阴毛(陰毛) pubic hair
- 阴森(陰森) gloomy; sinister; eerie
- 惜寸阴(惜寸陰) to cherish every moment; to make good use of one's time
- 革兰氏阴性(革蘭氏陰性) Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
- 光阴(光陰) time
- 阴精(陰精) sex fluids
- 阴沉(陰沉) gloomy
Also contained in
淮阴 、 华阴市 、 淮阴区 、 山阴县 、 阴性名词 、 江阴 、 河阴
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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: 56
- 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: 42
- 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: 31
- 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — 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
- 阴生 (陰生) 陰生金與甲 — Guanzi 管子, 四時第四十 Chapter 40: The Four Seasons — count: 4
- 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
- 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
- 阴事 (陰事) 陰事不得 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《昏義》 The Meaning of the Marriage Ceremony — 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
- 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