Characters › 阴
6 strokes · radical 阝 (town) · traditional 陰
10 strokes · simplified 阴
A way to remember it
The shaded face of a hill: 阝 for the slope, with the moon beneath. It is the overcast half of the weather, the shadow, and the counterpart of 阳.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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overcast (weather); cloudy
yīn — overcast (weather); cloudy
Radical 阝 (town) · 6 strokes · traditional 陰
10 strokes · simplified 阴
A way to remember itThe shaded face of a hill: 阝 for the slope, with the moon beneath. It is the overcast half of the weather, the shadow, and the counterpart of 阳.