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
- —私戦予備及び陰謀罪(crime of) preparations or plots for private war
- —陰極線オシロスコープcathode-ray oscilloscope
- —一寸の光陰軽んずべからずthere isn't a moment to be wasted; every moment is precious; make hay while the sun shines
- —陰囊scrotum
- —陰欝gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
- —陰語secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang
- —陰蔽concealment; hiding; covering up; suppression
- —陰翳shadow; shade; shading; gloom; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
- —陰陰dark and desolate; forlorn
- —陰事secret
- —小陰the lesser yin (in yin-yang)
- —陰画紙photographic paper
- —陰のうscrotum
- —陰うつgloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
- —陰気臭いdismal; gloomy
- —陰陰滅滅gloomy and depressing; mournful
- —陰線処理hidden line removal; hidden line elimination
- —陰に籠るto stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted; to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance
- —光陰矢の如しtime flies like an arrow; time and tide wait for no man; life is short
- —陰影を付けるto crosshatch