HSK 2 · Adjectives

阴 yīn “cloudy” in Chinese

Traditional 陰

What 阴 means

  1. cloudy, overcast
  2. overcast (weather)
  3. shady
  4. Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)
  5. negative (electric.)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • feminine

How to say 阴

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale阴yīn1st tone, high and level

阴 in a sentence

  1. 今天是个阴天。

    Jīntiān shì ge yīntiān.

    It’s a cloudy day today.

    Sentence #4625757 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 天突然转阴了。

    Tiān tūrán zhuǎn yīn le.

    The sky suddenly became overcast.

    Sentence #663230 from Tatoeba

  3. 天气变阴了。

    Tiānqì biàn yīn le.

    It’s clouded over.

    Sentence #761057 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 阴 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 阴 (yīn) with each of its parts in a different colour
阴yīnovercast
  • 阝place
  • 月moon · yuè

How to write 阴

阴 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

阴 (yīn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 阴 (yīn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 阴

Words with 阴

阴谋yīnmóu · plot

More words: Adjectives

真zhēn · true非常fēicháng · extremely最zuì · most晴qíng · sunny好吃hǎochī · delicious白色báisè · white不错bùcuò · not bad黑色hēisè · black

FAQs

阴 (yīn) means “cloudy, overcast” or “overcast (weather)”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it yīn: yīn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 阴 is written 陰. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 阴 from the suggestions. Typing yin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
阴 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.