陰

陰 (radical 170, 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中人戈戈 (NLOII), four-corner 7823₁, composition ⿰阝侌)

• 𠽛, 𣼩, 廕(𫷮), 癊, 蔭(荫)

• 阴 (Simplified form of 陰)

• KangXi: page 1353, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41691
• Dae Jaweon: page 1855, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4138, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9670

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r(u/i)m (“dark; shade; dusk; twilight”); compare Tibetan རུམ (rum, “darkness”), Jingpho rim (“to be dusk”) (Benedict, 1972; Bodman, 1980; STEDT).

Schuessler (2007) compares it instead to Burmese အုံ့ (um., “to become overcast”), Adi mugyum (“shade; shadow”), Lepcha [script needed] (so-dyŭm, “shade”).

陰

1. cloudy; overcast
2. dark
3. ^† hidden; secret
4. ^† negative
5. ^† the Moon
6. shade; shadow
7. (philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang
8. (Cantonese) bangs; fringe
9. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   好哇，你敢跟我玩兒陰的！ [MSC, trad.]
   好哇，你敢跟我玩儿阴的！ [MSC, simp.]

   Hǎo wa, nǐ gǎn gēn wǒ wánr yīn de! [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this example)

10. (dialectal) to deceive; to trick; to trap

    我今兒個讓人給陰了。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    我今儿个让人给阴了。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]

    Wǒ jīnrge ràng rén gěi yīn le. [Pinyin]

    (please add an English translation of this example)

11. genitalia (of humans)

    • 大陰人嫪毐 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      大阴人嫪毐 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, circa 91 BCE

      dàyīnrén Lào Āi [Pinyin]

      Lao Ai of the large penis

12. north side of mountain or south side of river

• 陽／阳 (yáng, “yang”)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. hidden
2. dark
3. negative

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: いん (in, Jōyō)
• Kun: かげ (kage, 陰, Jōyō); かげる (kageru, 陰る, Jōyō); くらい (kurai, 陰い); ほと (hoto, 陰)

• 阴

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​げ [káꜜgè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡe̞]

陰 (hiragana かげ, rōmaji kage)

1. shadow, shade

   木の陰

   a shadow of a tree

2. hidden side

   陰で動き回る

   maneuver in a hidden side

   陰の支配者

   a hidden ruler

• 影 (かげ) (kage)

From Middle Chinese 陰 (ʔˠiɪm).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) い​ん [íꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

陰 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

1. shade; shadow
2. shadow of the sun; (figuratively) time
3. secret; unknown
4. genitalia
5. negative; “female”; quiescent; minus
6. (philosophy) yin
7. north side of mountain; south side of water
8. the moon

陰 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

1. (philosophy) yin
2. (literary) shady area; (陰に) in the shade; secretly; in private

/hoto₂/: *[potə] → [ɸoto] → [hoto]. As indicated in the Wamyōshō citation, /to₂/ may be related to 処 (/to₁/, “place, location”), but the phonological difference can not be explained. Perhaps related to Korean 보지 (poji, “vagina”).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ho̞to̞]

陰 (hiragana ほと, rōmaji hoto)

1. female genitalia
   • 712, Kojiki

     因生此子、美蕃登此三字以音。見灸而病臥在。

   • 712, Kojiki

     逆剥天斑馬剥而、所墮入時、天服織女見驚而、於梭衝陰上而死。訓陰上云富登。

2. (by extension) male genitalia
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 2, page 44-45:

     陰 釋名云、陰、今案玉茎玉門等通稱也 [...] 原書無其字按神代紀、「陰訓保止、保是含包之言、即所謂在陰翳之義、止、處也」 [...]

• べべ (bebe)
• へへ (hehe)
• まんこ (manko)
• みと (mito)
• おまんこ (omanko)
• おめこ (omeko)
• おそそ (ososo)
• つび (tsubi)

• Kurano, Kenji; Yūkichi Takeda (712) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1958, →ISBN, page 224
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

陰 • (eum) (hangeul 음)

1. 'female' principle
2. dark
3. secret

• 음경 (陰莖, eumgyeong, “penis”)
• 음렬 (陰裂, eumnyeol, “pudendal cleft”)
• 음순 (陰脣, eumsun, “labia”)
• 회음 (會陰, hoeeum, “perineum”)

Cognate with Japanese 陰 (hoto).

陰 (hiragana ほー, romaji hō)

陰 (hiragana ほー, romaji hō)

1. female genitalia

• 陰目 (ほーみー, hōmī, “vagina”)

• 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”)‎, 1963

陰 (âm, ơm)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• âm lịch (陰曆, “lunar calendar”)
• hội âm (會陰, “perineum”)