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隐

yǐn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 隱

What 隐 means

1. bound formsecret; hidden; concealed; crypto-

Other readings

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

• yìnto lean upon

Example sentences

• 此事必有隐情。
  Cǐ shì bì yǒu yǐnqíng.
  There must be something at the back of this matter.
• 我戴隐形眼镜。
  I wear contact lenses.
• 我对你毫无隐瞒。
  Wǒ duì nǐ háowú yǐnmán.
  I have no secrets from you.
• 我没什幺可隐藏。
  I have nothing to hide.
• 我对你从不隐瞒。
  I never hide things from you.
• 汤姆戴隐形眼镜。
  Tom wears contacts.

Words starting with 隐

• 隐私yǐn sīsecrets; private business; privacy
• 隐约yǐn yuēvague; faint; indistinct
• 隐瞒yǐn mánto conceal; to hide (a taboo subject); to cover up the truth
• 隐蔽yǐn bìto conceal; to hide; covert
• 隐患yǐn huàna danger concealed within sth; hidden damage; misfortune not visible from the surface
• 隐藏yǐn cángto hide; to conceal; to mask
• 隐隐yǐn yǐnfaint; indistinct
• 隐秘yǐn mìsecret; hidden
• 隐含yǐn hánto contain in a concealed form; to keep covered up; implicit
• 隐隐约约yǐn yǐn yuē yuē(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
• 隐居yǐn jūto live in seclusion
• 隐身yǐn shēnto hide oneself; invisible (person or online status)
• 隐形yǐn xínginvisible
• 隐喻yǐn yùmetaphor
• 隐私权yǐn sī quánprivacy right
• 隐性yǐn xìnghidden; crypto-; recessive (gene)
• 隐忍yǐn rěnto suffer in silence; to endure hardship or injustice without complaint…
• 隐去yǐn qùto disappear; to hide
• 隐形眼镜yǐn xíng yǎn jìngcontact lens
• 隐没yǐn mòto vanish gradually; to disappear; to fade out
• 隐匿yǐn nìto cover up; to hide; to conceal
• 隐士yǐn shìhermit
• 隐情yǐn qíngsth one wishes to keep secret; ulterior motive; a subject best avoided
• 隐忧yǐn yōusecret concern; private worry

Words containing 隐

• 若隐若现ruò yǐn ruò xiàn(idiom) faint; indistinct
• 李商隐Lǐ Shāng yǐnLi Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet
• 时隐时现shí yǐn shí xiànappearing and disappearing (idiom); intermittently visible
• 恻隐之心cè yǐn zhī xīncompassion
• 归隐guī yǐnto go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
• 退隐tuì yǐnto withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
• 难言之隐nán yán zhī yǐna hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom); sth too embarrassing to mention…
• 消隐xiāo yǐnto hide; to retreat into privacy
• 神隐shén yǐnto be concealed by supernatural forces; to disappear mysteriously…
• 私隐sī yǐn(Hong Kong) privacy
• 个人隐私gè rén yǐn sīpersonal privacy; private matters
• 时显时隐shí xiǎn shí yǐnappearing and disappearing; intermittently visible
• 忽隐忽现hū yǐn hū xiànintermittent; now you see it, now you don't
• 恻隐cè yǐncompassion; empathetic
• 郇山隐修会Xún shān yǐn xiū huìPriory of Zion (fictional masonic order)
• 小隐隐于林，大隐隐于市xiǎo yǐn yǐn yú lín , dà yǐn yǐn yú shìan ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods…
• 小隐隐于野，大隐隐于市xiǎo yǐn yǐn yú yě , dà yǐn yǐn yú shìan ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild…
• 该隐Gāi yǐnCain (name); Cain (biblical character), a figure of Judeo-Christian-Muslim mythology
• 直言无隐zhí yán wú yǐnsee 直言不讳

Characters that look like 隐

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

• 脆cuìbrittle; fragile; crisp
• 赐cì(bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant; (literary) gift; favor; Taiwan pr. sì
• 悠yōulong or drawn out; remote in time or space; leisurely
• 猖chāngferocious
• 隍huángdry moat; god of city
• 鸮xiāoowl (order Strigiformes)

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
• 瘾addiction; craving
• 尹(literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect…
• 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