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陰

yīn

the passive, female principle in Chinese philosophy (yin); dark; secret

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阜
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Simplified form: 阴

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Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 阴, the simplified form of 陰. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 今天是个阴天。

    Jīn tiān shì gè yīn tiān

    Today is a cloudy day.

    Shadow

  • 天气变阴了。

    Tiān qì biàn yīn le

    The weather turned bad.

    Shadow

  • 天突然转阴了。

    Tiān tū rán zhuǎn yīn le

    All of a sudden the sky became overcast.

    Shadow

  • 中国按阴历过新年。

    Zhōng guó àn yīn lì guo xīn nián

    In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.

    Shadow

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 阴

  • 阴yīn 1overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia
  • 阴天yīn tiān 1–1 cloudy day; overcast sky
  • 阴谋yīn móu 1–2 to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot
  • 阴影yīn yǐng 1–3 (lit. and fig.) shadow
  • 阴性yīn xìng 1–4 negative; feminine
  • 阴暗yīn àn 1–4 dim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; (fig.) dismal; gloomy; somber; murky; shadowy (side)