Chinese Character Wiki
㐆

yǐn

to turn the body

Reversal of 身. Depicts a person with a protruding midsection.

Evolution

㐆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㐆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

㐆  

yǐn

(corrupted form) to follow, to trust to; to put confidence in; to depend on, to turn around; to turn the body, (interchangeable 隱); component in Chinese character 殷[yīn]

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

殷

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

殷

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+3406

Shuowen

“，歸也。从反身。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.661-662



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