yīn, yìn
shade
Shade 阴 provided by a tree 艹; 阴 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 荫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
shade | ||
Sir Donald Tsang or Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944-) | ||
shade of a tree | ||
boulevard | ||
shade (of a tree) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.1533% of movies
3337th most common character in movies
2669th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+836B |
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