yīn
dark
Phonosemantic compound. 今 and 云 represent the sound, while 阝 and 云 represent the meaning.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*q(r)um | 'im | yīn | dark |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.5920% of movies
1214th most common character in movies
987th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9670 |
Shuowen | “陰,闇也。水之南,山之北也。从,侌聲。” |
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