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yín

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yín Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yín | yin2
English translation
boundary, river bank

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About yín

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

yín

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

Learning hint

earth

Etymology of yín

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土艮

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

gěn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and gěn represents the sound.

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Words with yín

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
无垠 wú yín vast無垠
yín limit yín
一望无垠 yī wàng wú yín to stretch as far as the eye can see (idiom)一望無垠
姚雪垠 Yáo Xuě yín Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成 Lǐ Zì chéng 姚雪垠 Yáo Xuě yín

yín Decomposition & Compounds

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