漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
陰: shade, yin
Also: negative, sex organs, secret, shadow
JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- ⻖hill(meaning)
- 今now(form)
- 云(form)
⻖ carries the meaning · 今 and 云 are drawn in
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
インin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 陰謀いんぼうplot; intrigue; scheme
- 陰気いんきgloomy; dismal; miserable
かげkage · kun'yomi · on its own
- 陰かげshade; shadow
- 陰りかげりshadow (e.g. on someone's happiness); cloud
- 日陰ひかげshade; shadow
- 陰口かげぐちmalicious gossip; backbiting
- 山陰やまかげplace in the shade of a mountain
- 物陰ものかげplace hidden from view; cover; shelter
Also read かげる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
今
Also built on now (今)
云
Also built on 云
In ChineseSimplified 阴 · traditional, as in Japanese · yīn
Japan keeps the traditional form 陰; mainland China simplifies it to 阴.
- Simplified
- 阴 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 陰 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yīn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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