Chinese symbol for “shady”
阴凉
yīn liáng
Traditional: 陰涼
shady
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shady is 阴凉 (yīn liáng), defined as: shady.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shady”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑 | hēi | black; dark |
| 阴 (陰) | yīn | overcast (weather); cloudy |
| 不明不白 | bù míng bù bái | (idiom) obscure; dubious; shady |
| 不三不四 | bù sān bù sì | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript |
| 背阴 (背陰) | bèi yīn | in the shade; shady |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阴凉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阴谋 (陰謀) | yīn móu | to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot |
| 阴影 (陰影) | yīn yǐng | (lit. and fig.) shadow; measure word: 道 (dào) |
| 阴道 (陰道) | yīn dào | vagina |
| 阴茎 (陰莖) | yīn jīng | penis |
| 阴阳 (陰陽) | yīn yáng | yin and yang |
| 阴暗 (陰暗) | yīn àn | dim; dark |
| 凉爽 (涼爽) | liáng shuǎng | cool and refreshing |
| 清凉 (清涼) | qīng liáng | cool; refreshing |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shady”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.