yín
distant place
Evolution

Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ[(r)ə[r] | yin | yín | small of the back, region of the reins |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5035th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5924 |
Shuowen | “夤,敬惕也。从夕,寅聲。《易》曰:‘夕惕若夤。’” |
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