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阴

陰traditional

HSK 2#4058 by frequencyradical 阝

Yīn["a","g","ad","b"]

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

Examples

天气变阴了。

The weather turned bad.

天突然转阴了。

All of a sudden the sky became overcast.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.