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阴鸷

yīn zhì

2-character word Traditional 陰鷙

What 阴鸷 means

1. malicious
2. treacherous

The characters in 阴鸷

• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 鸷zhìfierce; brutal; bird of prey

Sounds the same

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

• 音质tone; sound quality; timbre
• 阴骘charitable acts performed in secret; hidden good deeds

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