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胤

yìn

Character

What 胤 means

1. descendant
2. heir
3. offspring
4. posterity
5. to inherit

Words containing 胤

• 赵匡胤Zhào Kuāng yìnZhao Kuangyin, personal name of founding Song emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 (927-976)

Characters built on 月

These share the phonetic component 月 (yuè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 膦lìnphosphine
• 膑bìnvariant of 髌

Characters that look like 胤

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

• 表biǎoexterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion)
• 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 泵bèngpump (loanword)
• 哀āi(bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament…
• 屎shǐfeces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)

Sounds the same

Read yìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 印to print; to mark; to engrave
• 隐to lean upon
• 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