overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia

variant of 陰｜阴

silver / silver-colored / relating to money or currency

old variant of 因

cause / reason / because

sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)

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

smile (archaic)

old variant of 飲｜饮

to drink

to give (animals) water to drink

surname Yin / abbr. for 印度

to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image

yin and yang

secret / hidden / concealed / (prefix) crypto-

to lean upon

surname Yin

to administer / to oversee / to run / magistrate (old)

surname Yin

surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province

flourishing / abundant / earnest / hospitable

roll of thunder

to chant / to recite / to moan / to groan / cry (of certain animals and insects) / song (ancient poem)

old variant of 吟

yin and yang / heaven and earth / the universe

variant of 蔭｜荫, shade

shade

addiction / craving

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

mattress

deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 in TCM

excess / excessive / wanton / lewd / lascivious / obscene / depraved

variant of 淫

limit / border / river bank

descendant / heir / offspring / posterity / to inherit

same as 引導｜引导 / Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage

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

variant of 洇

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

high / rugged mountains / steep

gums (of the teeth)

Yin mountains in Inner Mongolia

Gulja or Yining city in Xinjiang, capital of Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture

School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍｜邹衍

indium (chemistry)

name of district in Anhui / capital of Yin

marriage connections

variant of 姻

name of a district in Zhejiang

to soak / to blotch / to splotch

heavy rain

diagram of cosmological scheme / Yin-Yang symbol ☯

heaven and earth / yin and yang

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

Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子

Danny Lee Sau-Yin (1953-), Hong Kong actor and director

Yin county in Zhejiang

mat / underclothing

injured / moreover / preferably

cap of Yin dynasty

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

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

to restrain / to dam a stream and change its direction / a mound

(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia

old variant of 陰｜阴

late at night

variant of 崟

(onom.) sound of thunder

indene (chemistry)

earthworm

see 吲哚, indole C8H7N

sacrifice

solicitous

Zhang Yining (1981-), PRC female table tennis player and Olympic gold medalist

mute

a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table "yin contract" 陰合同｜阴合同 as well as an ostensibly genuine "yang contract" 陽合同｜阳合同 in order to deceive authorities

an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)

peaceful / solemn

cellar

variant of 崟

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.)

remote / outlying

tool used for shaping wood (old) / old variant of 檃

old variant of 齦｜龈

old variant of 陰｜阴

Japanese variant of 隱｜隐

bury / mound / to dam / close

variant of 堙 / to block

Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc

obscene, licentious, lewd

generative forces / magic emanation

iron-gray (horse)

to go forward / to advance

surname Yin

respectful / to speak gently

variant of 飲｜饮

mute

insincere / stupid

yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over