阴 (陰) yīn

1. yīn adjective cloudy; overcast
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , Concept: Weather 天气
   Notes: (XHZD '阴' 2, p. 895)
2. 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)
3. yīn noun negative
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
   Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adj 4; XHZD '阴' 3, p. 895)
4. yīn noun female principle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 7; Kroll 2015 '陰' 4, p. 554; Unihan '陰')
5. 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)
6. yīn adjective shady
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 1, p. 554; XHZD '阴' 4, p. 895)
7. 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)
8. 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)
9. yīn noun a dark place; darkness
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 2; Kroll 2015 '陰' 1a, p. 554)
10. yīn proper noun Yin
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
    Notes: (Guoyu '陰' n 8)
11. yīn noun the moon
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 月亮 (Guoyu '陰' n 5)
12. 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)
13. yīn adjective feminine
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adj 5)
14. 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)
15. yīn adjective supernatural
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Relating to ghosts or demons (Guoyu '陰' adj 6)
16. yīn adjective secretly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '陰' adv; Kroll 2015 '陰' 5, p. 554)
17. 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)
18. 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')
19. 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)
20. yìn verb to bury
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 埋藏 (Guoyu '陰' yìn v 2)
21. yīn adjective cold
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 3, p. 554)
22. yīn verb to weaken; to decline
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 3a, p. 554)
23. yīn noun broken lines in a hexagram
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 4a, p. 554)
24. yīn verb to suggest
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' 5a, p. 554)
25. yìn verb to protect; to shelter
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '陰' yìn 1, p. 554)

Contained in

• 阴极射线(陰極射線) to discharge from a negative node
• 阴德(陰德) a hidden act of goodness
• 阴电(陰電) negative electric charge
• 阴冷(陰冷) gloomy and cold
• 有阴影(有陰影) shadowy
• 阴霾(陰霾) haze
• 阴宅(陰宅) tomb ; a tomb
• 阴间使人(陰間使人) sent a person in secret
• 阴暗面(陰暗面) the dark side (of society etc)
• 阴沟(陰溝) a covered drain ; female genitals
• 阴影(陰影) a shadow; shade
• 林阴大道(林陰大道) boulevard; tree-lined avenue
• 阳尊阴卑(陽尊陰卑) yang is noble, yin is base
• 阴阳终始(陰陽終始) yin and yang finish and start
• 阴谋诡计(陰謀詭計) crafty plots and machinations
• 贵阳而贱阴(貴陽而賤陰) prefer sunny [places] to dark
• 阴历(陰曆) lunar calendar
• 阴沟里翻船(陰溝裡翻船) to meet with unexpected failure; to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
• 阴司(陰司) hell; nether world
• 阳奉阴违(陽奉陰違) superficial respect but inward disobedience; lip service
• 观落阴(觀落陰) a ritual whereby the living soul is brought to the nether world for a spiritual journey
• 阴道口(陰道口) female external genitalia; vulva
• 天地阴阳(天地陰陽) Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang
• 阴曹地府(陰曹地府) netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld
• 阴险(陰險) treacherous; sinister
• 阴云(陰雲) dark cloud
• 阴阳五行(陰陽五行) yin yang and the five elements
• 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
• 阴阳(陰陽) Yin and Yang ; the study of celestial bodies ; the occult arts ; positive and negative
• 阴湿(陰濕) dark and moist
• 阴曹(陰曹) hell
• 阴道棕榈状壁(陰道棕櫚狀壁) palmate folds of cervical canal; plicae palmatae canalis cervicis uteri
• 阴私(陰私) shameful secret
• 绿阴(綠陰) tree shade; shady
• 寸阴(寸陰) a very brief period of time ( the time it takes for a shadow to move an inch)
• 背阴(背陰) in the shade; shady
• 阴桫(陰桫) a hard wood
• 阴天(陰天) cloudy day; overcast sky

Also contained in

华阴 、 湘阴县 、 汉阴县 、 江阴 、 淮阴区 、 山阴 、 江阴市 、 淮阴地区 、 阴性名词 、 汤阴县 、 蒙阴县 、 淮阴 、 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
• 阴生 (陰生) 陰生金與甲 — Guanzi 管子, 四時第四十 Chapter 40: The Four Seasons — count: 4
• 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
• 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
• 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