尹 — Chinese character
尹
yǐn
to govern, to oversee; director
- Pinyin
- yǐn
- Radical
- 4 ⼃ (Slash)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 一 尸
- Formation
- pictographic — A scepter
- Japanese
- 尹 as a kanji
Common words with 尹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 府尹 | fǔ yǐn | magistrate; prefect |
English words written with 尹
尹 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 5 · Mencius 27 · Zhuangzi 11 · Great Learning 1
- Analects 5.18
- Analects 12.22
- Mencius 2A.2
- Mencius 2B.2
- Mencius 2B.12
- Mencius 4B.24
- Mencius 5A.6
- Mencius 5A.7
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.