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印

yìn

HSK 4 Character

What 印 means

1. to print
2. to mark
3. to engrave
4. a seal
5. a print
6. a stamp
7. a mark
8. a trace
9. image

Other readings

印 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Yìnsurname Yin; abbr. for {印度|Yìn dù}, India

Example sentences

• 印度万岁。
  Yìndù wànsuì.
  Long live India!
• 我去过印度。
  I have been to India.
• 我到过印度。
  I have been to India.
• 我不是印度人。
  Wǒ bù shì Yìndùrén.
  I'm not Indian.
• 我不来自印度。
  I am not from India.
• 佛教来自印度。
  Buddhism originated in India.

Words starting with 印

• 印象yìn xiàngimpression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory
• 印刷yìn shuāto print; printing
• 印度Yìn dùIndia
• 印尼Yìn níIndonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亚
• 印证yìn zhèngto confirm; to corroborate; to verify; proof; evidence
• 印度人Yìn dù rénIndian (person); Indian people
• 印制yìn zhìto print; to produce (a publication)
• 印记yìn jìimprint; trace
• 印章yìn zhāngseal; signet; chop
• 印第安人Yìn dì ān rénAmerican Indians
• 印度尼西亚Yìn dù ní xī yàIndonesia
• 印度洋Yìn dù yángIndian Ocean
• 印发yìn fāto publish; to print and distribute
• 印刷厂yìn shuā chǎngprinting house; print shop
• 印刷品yìn shuā pǐnprinted products
• 印花yìn huātax stamp; to print a pattern or design on fabric
• 印象派yìn xiàng pàiimpressionism
• 印第安Yìn dì ān(American) Indian; native American; indigenous peoples of the Americas
• 印度教Yìn dù jiàoHinduism
• 印迹yìn jìfootprint
• 印子yìn zitrace; impression (e.g. footprint); abbr. of 印子钱
• 印数yìn shùthe amount of books etc printed at one impression; print run
• 印行yìn xíngto print and distribute; to publish
• 印花税yìn huā shuìstamp duty

Words containing 印

• 打印dǎ yìnto affix a seal; to stamp; to print out (with a printer)
• 复印fù yìnto photocopy; to duplicate a document
• 打印机dǎ yìn jīprinter
• 复印件fù yìn jiànphotocopy; duplicate
• 脚印jiǎo yìnfootprint
• 商务印书馆Shāng wù Yìn shū guǎnThe Commercial Press, Beijing (est. 1897)
• 烙印lào yìnto brand (cattle etc); brand; (fig.) to leave a lasting mark
• 手印shǒu yìnhandprint; fingerprint; thumbprint
• 影印yǐng yìnphotographic reproduction; photocopying; photo-offset
• 复印机fù yìn jīphotocopier
• 油印yóu yìnto mimeograph
• 水印shuǐ yìnwatermark
• 大印dà yìnstamp; official seal
• 编印biān yìnto compile and print; to publish
• 重印chóng yìnto reprint
• 心心相印xīn xīn xiāng yìntwo hearts beat as one (idiom); a kindred spirit
• 一步一个脚印yī bù yī gè jiǎo yìnone step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress; reliable
• 刻印kè yìnto engrave a seal; stamp mark; to print with carved type
• 翻印fān yìnto reprint (generally without authorization)
• 中印Zhōng YìnChina-India
• 付印fù yìnto go to press; to submit for printing
• 列印liè yìnto print out (Tw)
• 官印guān yìnofficial seal
• 平印píng yìnlithography; abbr. for 平版印刷

Characters that look like 印

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
• 邓Dèngsurname Deng
• 卯mǎomortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar…

Sounds the same

Read yìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 隐to lean upon
• 胤descendant; heir; offspring
• 饮to give (animals) water to drink
• 荫shade
• 茚indene (chemistry)
• 慭(literary) to wish; to prefer to; (literary) to incur damage or loss
• 䲟shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
• 窨cellar