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陰

JLPT N1 11 strokes Frequency: #1393

Meanings

Shade, Yin, Negative, Sex Organs, Secret, Shadow

Radicals

阝

Decomposition

⿰阝侌

Etymology

Ideographic: The shaded side of a hill 阝; 侌 provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 corner top-left-to-bottom-right

2 unknown right-to-left

3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal right-to-left

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 curve bottom-to-top

11 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

イン in

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かげ kage

Words Using This Kanji

181 words total

Other (20 words)

陰茎骨いんけいこつ

baculum

陰になり日向になりかげになりひなたになり

openly and secretly

陰キャラいんキャラ

gloomy person

一樹の陰一河の流れも他生の縁いちじゅのかげいちがのながれもたしょうのえん

everything is preordained

gloomy person

vulva

Cryptozoic (period)

song sung behind the scenes

陰茎癒着いんけいゆちゃく

penile adhesion

少陰しょういん

the lesser yin (in yin-yang)

寸陰すんいん

moment

碑陰ひいん

back of a stone monument

陰裏の豆もはじけ時かげうらのまめもはじけどき

all girls eventually awaken to sex

陰裏かげうら

shade

お陰様をもちましておかげさまをもちまして

thanks to your assistance

お陰をもちましておかげをもちまして

thanks to your assistance

陰線いんせん

red candlestick (in a candlestick chart)

陰性者いんせいしゃ

person who has tested negative (for a viral infection, etc.)

陰謀論者いんぼうろんしゃ

conspiracy theorist

山陰道さんいんどう

San'indō (province roughly corresponding to the modern San'in region)

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