Kanji1 / 11
陰 kanji
shade, yin, negative, sex organs, secret, shadow
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
イン
Kun readings
かげかげる
Variant forms
侌阥阴隂Words with 陰
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1陰気Populargloomy; dismal; miserable; melancholy; spirit of yin
- —陰性Popularnegative (result); gloomy; negative (e.g. attitude); pessimistic
- —陰謀Popularplot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
- —陰陽Popularcosmic dual forces; yin and yang; sun and moon, etc.
- —陰(the) negative (e.g. pole); yin (in Chinese divination); hidden place; unseen part; private location
- —陰萎impotence (sexual); erectile impotence
- —陰画negative
- —陰核clitoris
- —陰極cathode; negative pole; minus terminal
- —陰茎penis
- —陰険crafty; tricky; sly; wily; treacherous; underhand; sinister (look)
- —陰惨sadness and gloom
- —陰湿malicious; spiteful; vicious; wicked; devious; underhanded; sly; shady and damp
- —陰唇labia; labium
- —陰晴unsettled (fine and cloudy) weather
- —陰徳secret charity
- —陰嚢scrotum
- —陰部pubic region; private parts; genital area
- —陰文lettering of an engraving
- —陰毛pubic hair