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
- —大陰唇labia majora
- —小陰唇labia minora
- —陰電荷negative charge
- —陰謀者plotter; conspirator
- —陰謀団cabal
- —緑陰樹shade tree
- —陰陽家diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; medium; School of Yin-yang (China); School of Naturalists
- —陰茎骨baculum; os penis; penis bone
- —陰キャgloomy person
- —陰生代Cryptozoic (period)
- —陰性者person who has tested negative (for a viral infection, etc.)
- —山陰道San'indō (province roughly corresponding to the modern San'in region)
- —耐陰性shade tolerance
- —陰茎脚crus penis
- —会陰部perineal region
- —会陰膜perineal membrane
- —陰極線管cathode-ray tube; CRT
- —陰性反応negative reaction (in patient)
- —陰に陽に(both) openly and covertly; publicly and privately; implicitly and explicitly
- —陰々滅々gloomy and depressing; mournful