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
- —陰にinvisibly; secretly; privately
- —鎖陰gynatresia
- —陰裂pudendal cleft; vulvar cleft
- —女陰female genitals; vulva
- —春陰cloudy spring weather
- —陰霖long period of rain
- —陰的implicit
- —外陰vulva; pudenda
- —陰梃clitoris
- —少陰the lesser yin (in yin-yang)
- —寸陰moment; short time
- —碑陰back of a stone monument; inscription on the back of a stone monument
- —庇陰protection; shield; shadow of eaves
- —陰線red candlestick (in a candlestick chart); bearish candlestick; terminator (boundary between the areas of light and shadow on an object)
- —陰数even number (considered unlucky in Onmyōdō numerology); ying number
- —樹陰shade of a tree
- —陰極線cathode ray
- —陰電気negative charge; negative electricity
- —陰電子electron
- —外陰部external genitalia (esp. female); vulva