yín
speak gently
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]rə[n] (< uvular?) | ngin | yín | affable, reasonable |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7233rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8ABE |
Shuowen | “誾,和說而諍也。从言,門聲。” |
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