yīn

to be dumb

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

音 sound component

  Sound component

yīn

  

sound

Evolution

喑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yīn

to be dumb; the sobbing of infants; mute

Most common words with 喑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mute

喑哑

hoarse

万马齐喑

an atmosphere of political oppression

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4868th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5591

Shuowen

“喑,宋齊謂兒泣不止曰喑。从口,音聲。”


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