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Simplified Pīnyīn		English Definition	Traditional HSK
阴 yīn	阴 \| 阴* \| *阴	overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia	陰 HSK 2


阴 yīn	阴 \| 阴* \| *阴	variant of 陰｜阴	隂 HSK 2


银 yín	银 \| 银* \| *银	silver / silver-colored / relating to money or currency	銀 HSK 3


引 yǐn	引 \| 引* \| *引	to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters	HSK 4


印 yìn	印 \| 印* \| *印	to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image	HSK 6


因 yīn	因 \| 因* \| *因	cause / reason / because	HSK 6


因 yīn	因 \| 因* \| *因	old variant of 因	囙 HSK 6


瘾 yǐn	瘾 \| 瘾* \| *瘾	addiction / craving	癮 HSK 7-9


阴阳 yīnyáng	阴阳 \| 阴阳* \| *阴阳	yin and yang	陰陽


音 yīn	音 \| 音* \| *音	sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)


听 yǐn	听 \| 听* \| *听	smile (archaic)


印 Yìn	印 \| 印* \| *印	surname Yin / abbr. for 印度, India


饮 yǐn	饮 \| 饮* \| *饮	to drink	飲


饮 yìn	饮 \| 饮* \| *饮	to give (animals) water to drink	飲


尹 Yǐn	尹 \| 尹* \| *尹	surname Yin


尹 yǐn	尹 \| 尹* \| *尹	(literary) to administer; to govern / (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)


殷 Yīn	殷 \| 殷* \| *殷	surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟 in present-day Henan


殷 yīn	殷 \| 殷* \| *殷	flourishing / abundant / earnest / hospitable


殷 yǐn	殷 \| 殷* \| *殷	roll of thunder


亳 Bó	亳 \| 亳* \| *亳	name of district in Anhui / capital of Yin


吟 yín	吟 \| 吟* \| *吟	to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. 猱, wide vibrato)


伊宁 Yīníng	伊宁 \| 伊宁* \| *伊宁	Yining city and county or Ghulja nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州｜伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang	伊寧


茵 yīn	茵 \| 茵* \| *茵	mattress


隐 yǐn	隐 \| 隐* \| *隐	(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-	隱


隐 yìn	隐 \| 隐* \| *隐	to lean upon	隱


阴 Yīn	阴 \| 阴* \| *阴	surname Yin	陰


淫 yín	淫 \| 淫* \| *淫	excess / excessive / wanton / lewd / lascivious / obscene / depraved


垠 yín	垠 \| 垠* \| *垠	limit / border / river bank


铟 yīn	铟 \| 铟* \| *铟	indium (chemistry)	銦


饮 yǐn	饮 \| 饮* \| *饮	old variant of 飲｜饮	㱃


乾坤 qiánkūn	乾坤 \| 乾坤* \| *乾坤	yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe


荫 yīn	荫 \| 荫* \| *荫	(bound form) shade (of a tree)	蔭


荫 yìn	荫 \| 荫* \| *荫	shade	蔭


导引 dǎoyǐn	导引 \| 导引* \| *导引	same as 引導｜引导 / Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage	導引


气化 qìhuà	气化 \| 气化* \| *气化	to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣｜气 transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant	氣化


阴山 Yīnshān	阴山 \| 阴山* \| *阴山	Yin mountains in Inner Mongolia	陰山


吲 yǐn	吲 \| 吲* \| *吲	used in 吲哚


吟 yín	吟 \| 吟* \| *吟	old variant of 吟	唫


茚 yìn	茚 \| 茚* \| *茚	indene (chemistry)


两仪 liǎngyí	两仪 \| 两仪* \| *两仪	heaven and earth / yin and yang	兩儀


胤 yìn	胤 \| 胤* \| *胤	descendant / heir / offspring / posterity / to inherit


姻 yīn	姻 \| 姻* \| *姻	marriage connections


婬 yín	婬 \| 婬* \| *婬	obscene, licentious, lewd


堙 yīn	堙 \| 堙* \| *堙	bury / mound / to dam / close


寅 yín	寅 \| 寅* \| *寅	3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger / ancient Chinese compass point: 60°


喑 yīn	喑 \| 喑* \| *喑	mute


嚚 yín	嚚 \| 嚚* \| *嚚	insincere / stupid


洇 yīn	洇 \| 洇* \| *洇	to soak / to blotch / to splotch


愔 yīn	愔 \| 愔* \| *愔	peaceful / solemn


崟 yín	崟 \| 崟* \| *崟	high / rugged mountains / steep


窨 yìn	窨 \| 窨* \| *窨	cellar


三教九流 sānjiàojiǔliú	三教九流 \| 三教九流* \| *三教九流	the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)


淫 yín	淫 \| 淫* \| *淫	variant of 淫	滛


蚓 yǐn	蚓 \| 蚓* \| *蚓	used in 蚯蚓


氤 yīn	氤 \| 氤* \| *氤	used in 氤氳｜氤氲


夤 yín	夤 \| 夤* \| *夤	late at night


訚 Yín	訚 \| 訚* \| *訚	surname Yin	誾


訚 yín	訚 \| 訚* \| *訚	respectful / to speak gently	誾


霪 yín	霪 \| 霪* \| *霪	heavy rain


骃 yīn	骃 \| 骃* \| *骃	iron-gray (horse)	駰


垔 yīn	垔 \| 垔* \| *垔	to restrain / to dam a stream and change its direction / a mound


飮 yǐn	飮 \| 飮* \| *飮	variant of 飲｜饮


荫 yìn	荫 \| 荫* \| *荫	variant of 蔭｜荫, shade	廕


慇 yīn	慇 \| 慇* \| *慇	solicitous


冔 xǔ	冔 \| 冔* \| *冔	cap of Yin dynasty


溵 Yīn	溵 \| 溵* \| *溵	used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture


廴 yǐn	廴 \| 廴* \| *廴	"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc


瘖 yīn	瘖 \| 瘖* \| *瘖	mute


狺 yín	狺 \| 狺* \| *狺	snarling of dogs


冘 yín	冘 \| 冘* \| *冘	to go forward / to advance


螾 yǐn	螾 \| 螾* \| *螾	the earthworm


檃 yǐn	檃 \| 檃* \| *檃	tool used for shaping wood (old)


姻 yīn	姻 \| 姻* \| *姻	variant of 姻	婣


磤 yǐn	磤 \| 磤* \| *磤	(onom.) sound of thunder


䲟 yìn	䲟 \| 䲟* \| *䲟	shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)	鮣


慭 yìn	慭 \| 慭* \| *慭	(literary) to wish; to prefer to / (literary) to incur damage or loss	憖


㐆 yǐn	㐆 \| 㐆* \| *㐆	component in Chinese character 殷


靷 yǐn	靷 \| 靷* \| *靷	traces (of a carriage)


堙 yīn	堙 \| 堙* \| *堙	variant of 堙 / to block	陻


裀 yīn	裀 \| 裀* \| *裀	mat / underclothing


湮 yīn	湮 \| 湮* \| *湮	variant of 洇


殥 yín	殥 \| 殥* \| *殥	(archaic) remote area


崯 yín	崯 \| 崯* \| *崯	variant of 崟


唫 yín	唫 \| 唫* \| *唫	variant of 崟


㥯 yǐn	㥯 \| 㥯* \| *㥯	cautious


櫽 yǐn	櫽 \| 櫽* \| *櫽	tool used for shaping wood (old) / old variant of 檃


龂 yín	龂 \| 龂* \| *龂	old variant of 齦｜龈	齗


隠 yǐn	隠 \| 隠* \| *隠	Japanese variant of 隱｜隐


筃 yīn	筃 \| 筃* \| *筃	a kind of bamboo / old variant of 茵


鞇 yīn	鞇 \| 鞇* \| *鞇	variant of 茵


阴虚 yīnxū	阴虚 \| 阴虚* \| *阴虚	deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 (TCM)	陰虛


九流 jiǔliú	九流 \| 九流* \| *九流	the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家｜阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家｜纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家｜杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家｜农家


侌 yīn	侌 \| 侌* \| *侌	old variant of 陰｜阴


邹衍 Zōu Yǎn	邹衍 \| 邹衍* \| *邹衍	Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)	鄒衍


李修贤 Lǐ Xiūxián	李修贤 \| 李修贤* \| *李修贤	Danny Lee Sau-Yin (1953-), Hong Kong actor and director	李修賢


唐寅 Táng Yín	唐寅 \| 唐寅* \| *唐寅	Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子


阴阳家 Yīnyángjiā	阴阳家 \| 阴阳家* \| *阴阳家	School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍｜邹衍	陰陽家


阴虚火旺 yīnxūhuǒwàng	阴虚火旺 \| 阴虚火旺* \| *阴虚火旺	an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)	陰虛火旺


银丝卷 yínsījuǎn	银丝卷 \| 银丝卷* \| *银丝卷	yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over	銀絲捲


伊宁县 Yīníng Xiàn	伊宁县 \| 伊宁县* \| *伊宁县	Yining County or Ghulja nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州｜伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang	伊寧縣

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