yīn, yìn
shade
Shade 陰 provided by a tree 艹; 陰 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 蔭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
shade | ||
Sir Donald Tsang or Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944-) | ||
shade of a tree | ||
boulevard | ||
shade (of a tree) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-q<r>[u]m-s | 'imH | yìn | shade |
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 | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+852D |
Shuowen | “蔭，艸陰地。从艸，陰聲。” |
Sources
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