阴天
yīn tiān 1–1
cloudy day; overcast sky
- Characters
- 2
- 阴 · 天
- Syllables
- 2
- yīn tiān
- Frequency
- Rare
- corpus count 25,274
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 阴yīn7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 陰'female' principle; dark; secret
- 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
今天是个阴天。
Jīn tiān shì gè yīn tiān
Today is a cloudy day.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 阴天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 天tiānHSK 1
day; sky; heaven
- 今天jīn tiānHSK 1
today; at the present; now
- 明天míng tiānHSK 1
tomorrow
- 昨天zuó tiānHSK 1
yesterday
- 天气tiān qìHSK 1
weather
- 聊天liáo tiān
to chat; to gossip
- 夏天xià tiānHSK 2
summer
- 天堂tiān tángHSK 6
paradise; heaven
- 冬天dōng tiānHSK 2
winter
- 天空tiān kōngHSK 3
sky
- 天使tiān shǐHSK 7
angel
- 整天zhěng tiānHSK 3
all day long; whole day
- 当天dāng tiānHSK 6
on that day
- 白天bái tiānHSK 1
daytime; during the day; day
- 天下tiān xiàHSK 6
land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 阴yīnHSK 2
overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia
- 春天chūn tiānHSK 2
spring (season)
- 天才tiān cáiHSK 5
talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- 天生tiān shēngHSK 7
nature; disposition; innate; natural
- 阴谋yīn móuHSK 6
to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot
- 阴影yīn yǐngHSK 6
(lit. and fig.) shadow
- 天上tiān shàngHSK 2
celestial; heavenly
- 天真tiān zhēnHSK 4
naive; innocent; artless
- 天赋tiān fùHSK 7
gift; innate skill