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阴郁

yīn yù

2-character word Traditional 陰鬱

What 阴郁 means

1. (of skies or one's mood) gloomy

The characters in 阴郁

• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 郁yù(bound form) strongly fragrant

Example sentences

• 一只赛勒诺栖于岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」
  One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

Sounds the same

Read yīn yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 音域vocal range; register (music)
• 茵芋Skimmia japonica