IDENTITY
阴yīncloudy; yin
HSK 1Top 670
CORE MEANING
cloudy; yin
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.cloudy; overcastHSK1
- 2.yin (the dark principle)HSK6
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 阝mound radical (fù)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰阝月
- hill; shade
- moon
USAGE
Common words
阴天yīntiānovercast day
阴雨yīnyǔrainy weather
Graded examples
明天是阴天。Míngtiān shì yīntiān.HSK2
Tomorrow will be overcast.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 阳
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
The moon (月) in the hill’s (阝) shade — overcast, yin.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #670
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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