yīnyìn

shade

Shade  provided by a tree also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

陰 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

yīn

  

dark

Evolution

蔭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蔭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蔭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yīn

shade, shelter; protect

() 

yìn

shade

Most common words with 蔭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shade

曾荫权

Sir Donald Tsang or Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944-)

树荫

shade of a tree

林荫道

boulevard

绿荫

shade (of a tree)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-q<r>[u]m-s

'imH

yìn

shade


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1533% of movies

3337th most common character in movies

2669th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+852D

Shuowen

“蔭,艸陰地。从艸,陰聲。”


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