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喑

yīn

Character

What 喑 means

1. mute

Words starting with 喑

• 喑哑yīn yǎhoarse; raspy

Words containing 喑

• 万马齐喑wàn mǎ qí yīnthousands of horses, all mute (idiom); no-one dares to speak out…

Sounds the same

Read yīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 因cause; reason; because
• 阴overcast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 音sound; noise; note (of musical scale)
• 姻marriage connections
• 茵mattress
• 荫(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 殷flourishing; abundant; earnest
• 铟indium (chemistry)
• 慇solicitous
• 氤used in 氤氲
• 洇to soak; to blotch; to splotch
• 愔peaceful; solemn

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yīn correctly.
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