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阴 — overcast; cloudy; shady

overcast; cloudy; shady; Yin; negative; feminine; moon; implicit

Pinyin
yīn · Yīn
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — yīn, Yīn — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 阴: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

阴 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 阴

Words with 阴 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 阴yīnovercast; cloudy; shady; Yin; negative; feminineHSK 2
  2. 阴暗yīn’àndim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; dismalHSK 7–9
  3. 阴历yīnlìlunar calendarHSK 7–9
  4. 阴谋yīnmóuto conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plotHSK 7–9
  5. 阴性yīnxìngnegative; feminineHSK 7–9
  6. 阴影yīnyǐngshadowHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.