阴 yīn▶ overcast, cloudy

Example sentences

• 今天是阴天吗？Jīntiān shì yīn tiān ma?Is it cloudy today?
• 昨天天气很阴。Zuótiān tiānqì hěn yīn.It was cloudy yesterday.

HSK 2HSK 3.0 · Level 2

Traditional

陰

HSK 2 — elementary Mandarin: 150 new words, 300 in all. You can handle basic daily tasks and simple routine exchanges. In HSK 3.0, 阴 is in band 2. HSK 2 explained

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中阴means cloudy. Here's how you'd talk about yesterday's weather.

中昨天天气很阴。

It was cloudy yesterday. Say it with me.

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Stroke order

阴 is written in 6 strokes.

• 阴

Senses

1. overcast (weather)
2. cloudy
3. shady
4. Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)
5. negative (electric.)
6. feminine
7. moon
8. implicit
9. hidden
10. genitalia

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阴 is pronounced yīn and means “overcast, cloudy”.