yīn

bury

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

垔 sound component

  Sound component

yīn

  

dam up, block, restrain

Evolution

堙 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
堙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yīn

bury; dam, block up; mound; to dam; close

() 

yīn

variant of [yīn]; to block

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6531st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5819


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