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尹

yǐn

Character

What 尹 means

1. literaryto administer; to govern
2. bound formgovernor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)

Other readings

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

• Yǐnsurname Yin

Words starting with 尹

• 尹潽善Yǐn Pǔ shànYun Poseon (1897-1990), South Korean Democratic party politician, mayor of Seoul from…

Words containing 尹

• 府尹fǔ yǐnmagistrate; prefect
• 陈恭尹Chén Gōng yǐnChen Gongyin (1631-1700), early Qing dynasty poet

Sounds the same

Read yǐn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饮to drink
• 引to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 隐(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
• 瘾addiction; craving
• 殷roll of thunder
• 听smile (archaic)
• 蚓used in 蚯蚓
• 吲used in 吲哚
• 廴"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc
• 檃tool used for shaping wood (old)
• 櫽tool used for shaping wood (old); old variant of 檃
• 磤(onomatopoeia) sound of thunder