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
- —陰門vulva
- —陰暦lunar calendar
- —陰鬱gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
- —会陰perineum
- —光陰time; Father Time
- —中陰bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days)
- —夜陰shades of evening; dead of night
- —陰影shadow; shade; shading; gloom; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
- —緑陰shade of trees
- —太陰Moon; the greater yin (in yin-yang)
- —陰刻hollow relief (carving); gloomy and cold
- —陰阜mons veneris; mons pubis
- —陰金ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris
- —陰樹shade tree
- —陰忍carrying out covert operations without being seen (of a ninja)
- —陰々dark and desolate; forlorn
- —陰道vagina; love-making technique
- —陰府path to the netherworld (underworld); Hades; Hell
- —陰圧negative pressure
- —陰爻yin yao (broken line composing one third of a trigram)