陰 — Chinese character
陰
yīn
the female principle; dark, shaded; hidden, implicit, secret
- Pinyin
- yīn
- Radical
- 170 ⾩ (Mound)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 阝 侌
- Formation
- ideographic — The shaded side of a hill 阝; 侌 provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 阴
- Japanese
- 陰 as a kanji
陰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 1 · Art of War 3 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 38
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 42
- Analects 14.43
- Art of War 1.7
- Art of War 7.19
- Art of War 9.11
- Hexagram 61
- Mencius 2A.4
- Mencius 5A.6
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.